With the start of the 21st century, there was only a small, largely elderly community left in Syria. Jews were still officially banned from politics and government employment and did not have military service obligations. Jews were also the only minority to have their religion mentioned on their passports and identification cards. Though they were occasionally subjected to violence by Palestinian protesters, the Syrian government took measures to protect them. There was a Jewish primary school for religious studies, and Hebrew was allowed to be taught in some schools. Every two or three months, a rabbi from Istanbul visited the community to oversee the preparation of kosher meat, which residents froze and used until his next visit.[56]

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In October 2015, with the threat of ISIS nearby, nearly all of the remaining Jews in Aleppo were rescued in a covert operation and moved to Israel, where they were resettled in Ashkelon.[77] In August 2019, BBC Arabic visited some of the last remaining Jews living in Damascus.[78] In April 2020 there were only a handful of elderly Jews remaining in the country, all in Damascus.[79][80] As of 2022, only four Jews are reported to remain in Syria,[1] including two elderly Jewish women in the town of Qamishli.[81] As of 2024 the total of living Jews in Syria number 3.[2][failed verification]
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