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Throughout Albania’s communist period under the dictatorship of Enver Hoxha, the Jewish community was isolated from the Jewish world. During this half century rule, all religion was strictly banned from the country. After the fall of Communism in 1991, nearly all the Jews of Albania were airlifted to Israel and settled predominately in Tel Aviv. Today, there are few physical remains of the Jewish community's presence in Albania. Where there was once an active Jewish community, today, there exists very little organized communal life. A community leader in the capital city of Tirana estimates that there are about 40 to 50 remaining Albanian Jews, including about 20 children, mostly living in the capital. In 2010, Chabad opened the Hechal Shlomo Synagogue in Tirana and appointed Rabbi Yoel Kaplan, who is actually based in Greece, as the unofficial chief rabbi of Albania. Kaplan estimates the number of Albanian Jews to be closer to 200 with several hundred more having "Jewish connections." An Albania-Israel Friendship Society is active in Tirana, but with little assistance.