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| 5 Jews left in Cairo with death of matriarch Marcelle Haroun |
| 2019-07-09 |
| [IsraelTimes] Marcelle Haroun, mother of the current president of Cairo’s Jewish community, has died at the age of 93. Her death, announced on Saturday, leaves five Jews known to be living in Cairo, Watani International reports. The five remaining are Haroun’s daughter Magda and four granddaughters. The AFP news service reported in March 2017 that there were also 12 Jews living in the coastal city of Alexandria. Haroun was married to lawyer and politician Shehata Haroun, known as a Jewish anti-Zionist who was a member of the Communist Party of Egypt, according to the report. Her daughter told Tablet in 2013 that Marcelle was her father’s "comrade." Egypt was home to some 80,000 Jews when Israel was founded in 1948. Thousands began leaving in the ensuing years, and many more in two waves, in 1956 and 1967. The Harouns remained, considering themselves Egyptian first, according to Watani. "The Jewish Community in Cairo (JCC) has regretfully lost Marcelle Haroun, one of its pillars who will be sorely missed," read the statement announcing her death. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #2 Following the war in '67 the last of the Jews began to leave Alexandria. Along with them went the Italians, Syrian and Lebanese Christians, Maltese and Greeks. Nasser got his way and the famed polyglot city of Alexandria was "Arabized." |
| Posted by: Chereting Pelosi1889 2019-07-09 09:49 |
| #1 back in the days of King Fuad I and Farouk I, Jews were in high government positions, especially in the Finance Dept (to reduce corruption) first pogroms in Egypt were in 1945 that is, before Israel was founded King Farouk was forced to abdicate in 1952 and by 1954 Nasser was in control. |
| Posted by: lord garth 2019-07-09 06:42 |