MK Ayoub Kara (Likud) announced on Friday that the rabbi of the Yemenite captial of Sanaa, Yahya ben Yosef, had been released from prison.
The rabbi was arrested after the last wave of immigration of Yemenite Jews to Israel, who brought with them a Torah which the Houthi rebels claim ownership of. Two other Jews remain in prison in the case.
"Sources close to me," said Kara, "turned to former Yemeni president Ali Abdullah Saleh in order to work for the release of the Jews."