Gose, Yanai. "Bemehoza isadeti et mdinat ayehudim"
Title trans.: "At Mehoza I Built the Jewish State"
Divergence: 502 CE
What if: Jewish exilarch Mar Zutra did not lead a rebellion against Kobad.
Summary: Rather than violently suppress an independent Jewish state centered on Mehoza, Babylon instead makes a pro-Jewish shift and two decades later supports the Yemeni Jewish kingdom in its fight for survival against Ethiopia.
Published: In BaMachane', Mar. 22, 1995.
Original in: Hebrew.