Gadhafi’s Mother Was Jewish, his Protocol Chief Says

Muammar Gadhafi's mother was Jewish, the late Libyan leader's chief of protocol Nuri al-Samara told Al-Hayat.

Last year, a 76-year-old Jewish resident of Netanya told Maariv that Gadhafi was her cousin.

"My grandmother converted to Islam but never forgot her roots," Gita Boaron told Maariv at the time. "She would come to visit us, give my mother money and say 'give to the synagogue, donate to the Jews.'"