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There is an Israeli Jew in Prishtina owning a pizzeria, Shachar Caspi. All the other Kosovo Jews had left in the 1960, when the province was subjected to the repression of Aleksandar Ranković's police. In the late 1980, the Milošević regime invented a fake "Jewish community" there, led by a Serbian. Those fake "Jews" left with the other Serbian occupiers when Kosovo was liberated, but not without stealing the archives of the Jewish community. http://www.commentarymagazine.com/article/the-israel-of-the-balkans/ The Israel of the Balkans Michael J. Totten — Commentary “All we want is to reduce the Albanian population to a manageable level.” – Zoran Andjelkovic, former Serbian governor of Kosovo Genocide is the “intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group.” – United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide The State of Israel is divided on the Kosovo question: should the world’s newest country be recognized? Some, like former Minister for Strategic Affairs Avigdor Lieberman, worry that Kosovo’s unilateral declaration of independence from Serbia might encourage Palestinians to make the same move. The small Balkan state, however, may have more in common with Israel than with the West Bank and Gaza. Israelis, as Amir Mizroch notes in the Jerusalem Post, have excellent relations with the Kosovars. “Israel has an interest in helping to establish a moderate, secular Muslim state friendly to Jerusalem and Washington in the heart of southeast Europe,” he writes. Indeed, Kosovo is neither an enemy state nor a jihad state. Its brand of Islam is heavily Sufi, which is at the opposite end of the spectrum from the Wahhabism and Salafism that inspire Al Qaeda and other terrorist groups...