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(Pensioners' Budget for the year 39 - 940)
Approved for the year 38-939 | Realized for the year 39-940
| Dinar | Fils | | Dinar | Fils
Rabbi | 400 | 5 | | 400 | 5
Pensioner | 25 | 2 | | 250 | 3
Family assistance | 037 | 3 | | 037 | 3
Pensioner | 588 | 2 | | 588 | 2
Widow of a Rabbi | 430 | 2 | | 430 | 2
Poor of Sheikh Isaac | 430 | 2 | | 430 | 2
Widow of a Rabbi | - | - | | 823 | 1
Daughter of a Rabbi | 800 | 1 | | 800 | 1
Widow of a Rabbi | 215 | 1 | | 215 | 1
Widow of a Rabbi | 350 | 1 | | 350 | 1
Widow of a Rabbi | 900 | - | | 900 | -
Daughter of a Rabbi | 900 | - | | 900 | -
Total monthly salaries | 300 | 24 | | 123 | 27
Total annual allocations | 600 | 291 | | 476 | 325
Note: The realized expenditures for pensioners in the year 38 - 939 were (484 - 315 Dinars)
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Report of the Audit Committee
on the results of auditing the accounts of the Lay Council for the years 36/937 and 37/938
Baghdad, 29 March 940
His Excellency the President of the Jewish Community, Respected
After greetings and respect
In accordance with the resolution taken by the General Council in its session held on 23-2-939, we have audited the accounts of the Lay Council for the years 36-937 and 37-938. It appeared to us that the accounts, as shown by the Council's records, were correct and that the revenues were spent on the items allocated to them according to the resolutions of the General Council. No important points emerged as a result of this audit that require mention in this report.
We have learned that the Lay Council appointed an auditor to examine the accounts of the schools and other community institutions in detail, as previously suggested by the Audit Committee in a previous report, and that the said auditor has completed auditing the accounts of one school entirely and recently began auditing the accounts of a second school.
Salih Faraj Hayyim Dawud Twayq Israel Nassim Hay
Note: The auditor has finished examining the accounts of all schools for the year 38-1939, and his reports are under review by the respected Schools Committee, and the said auditor is now occupied with auditing the hospital accounts.
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(Amounts spent outside the budget of the year 38-939)
1) The fight against the smuggling of Gabella fees represents the intensity that occurred this year, which required the spending of
additional amounts that were not present in the budget, totaling 129.330 Dinars. The spending of these amounts
was necessary in the view of the Council to maintain the sole resource from which the community fund derives its finances; therefore, it
requests the approval of the esteemed General Council for the mentioned amount, as well as for the amount of 96.518 Dinars
which was spent on unforeseen expenses in addition to the amount allocated for them in the budget, which are expenses the
Council found necessary: -
Fils | Dinar |
330 | 129 | Spent for maintaining Gabella fees and fighting smuggling
518 | 96 | Spent in addition to unforeseen expenses
848 | 225 | The amount presented for the approval of the esteemed General Council
2) In April 939, the Council received a warning from the Secretariat of the Capital that the facade overlooking the road from
Khan al-Shorja No. 158-158-10 is liable to collapse and requires immediate demolition. After the
Council conducted the necessary inspection of the mentioned facade, it found that its remaining posed a danger and it was necessary to proceed
with its demolition according to the request of the Secretariat.
The Council, out of its desire to reconstruct this property and develop its annual yield, which did not exceed eighty-five
dinars in the past, has agreed with one of the tenants to lease the Khan for a period of
two years for three hundred and eighty dinars (the rent for the first year was paid in cash and the rest during the lease period)
provided that the Council reconstructs the collapsed facade in two floors, four shops on the first floor and four
rooms and a balcony on the second floor. The Council has actually carried out the reconstruction and spent 475.952
dinars on the reconstruction, which is equivalent to the rent for the two years plus 95.952 dinars.
952 | 475 | The amount presented for the approval of the esteemed General Council
3) The Council had promised, when it proposed the abolition of the Al-Sakram school in the past academic year,
to do its best to employ some of the teachers of the mentioned school in vacancies that may occur in other
schools and to look at the fate of the other teachers with sympathy. Most of
these teachers were actually employed in suitable positions, except for three of them for whom the Council was unable to find suitable positions.
Therefore, consultations took place between the Council and the Schools Committee regarding them, and the agreement resulted in giving them
gratuities roughly proportional to their last salaries and the length of service of each of them in the community schools.
The Council was driven by the same reasons to spend the amount suggested by the Schools Committee to Mr. Moise
Meir after the termination of his services in the community schools. Below are the amounts spent in this regard,
with the hope that the esteemed General Council will kindly approve them.
500 | 701 | Continued
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Proposal of the Lay Council to impose fees on certificates issued by
the Presidency of the Jewish Community in Baghdad
As it is necessary to strive to increase revenues by finding new sources, even if they are simple, the Council
proposes imposing fees on certificates issued by the Presidency of the Community, such as certificates of marriage, engagement, divorce, circumcision,
and other certificates obtained by interested parties.
The number of certificates issued by the Presidency of the Community has begun to increase in recent years and is
increasing steadily; the number of certificates issued in the month of July 1940 reached seventy certificates, compared to 42
in the same month of last year.
The fee that the Council proposes to collect for each certificate is only a quarter of a dinar, and it is hoped that the revenues
for the coming year will be about one hundred and fifty dinars, which will grow year after year. Therefore, our Council requests approval for
the imposition of this fee. The Council is currently studying the issue of setting fees for courts and circumcision and will submit its proposals
regarding them to the esteemed General Council at another opportunity.
Signature
President of the Lay Council
(End)
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Fils | Dinar |
500 | 701 | Previous balance
- | 50 | Paid to Mr. Shlomo Saleh, former director of Al-Karam School
- | 44 | Paid to the former teacher at Al-Karam School, Mr. Naji Mukhtar
- | 20 | Paid to the former teacher at Al-Karam School, Reuben Yehuda
- | 200 | Paid to Mr. Moniz Maber, former assistant director of Shamash School
- | 314 | Amount presented for the approval of the esteemed General Council
500 | 1015 | Total amounts spent outside the 38-939 budget
(Statement of the deficit of the Physical Council fund on the first of October 939)
Fils | Dinar |
178 | 7924 | Summary of the deficit at the end of September 939
| | Its breakdown
405 | 6590 | Amounts recorded in the books of the Physical Council as claims for the community's institutions and departments
| | on 1 October 939
| | The claim recorded in the trust account as follows:
706 | 943 | Cemetery Trust
067 | 390 | Trust of the endowment of Mr. Menashi Shaul Shamshua
773 | 1333 |
178 | 7924 | Deficit at the end of September 939
Note: It is hoped that this deficit will decrease by the end of September 940 to approximately 7000 Dinars, including the trusts mentioned above
6033
31 July 1940
Election of the General Council of the Jewish Community
His Excellency the Minister of Justice, the Respected
Baghdad
After greetings and respect. The term of the General Council of the Jewish Community in Baghdad
ends on 23 August 1940. Therefore, I request Your Excellency to kindly appoint the supervisory body for
the elections provided for in Article 2 of the Jewish Community Regulation No. 36 of the year
1931, in order to begin what is necessary to conduct the election of the General Council for the next term.
Please accept, Your Excellency, the assurances of my respect.
⟦Sassoon⟧
Head of the Community
Rabbi Salman Hoki Aboudi | From the Spiritual Council
Rabbi Daoud Ezra Musfi |
Ibrahim Khazzam the Lawyer |
Eliyahu Munir Daoud Haskil Habib |
Anwar Shaul the Lawyer | From the Notables
Khedhouri Murad Shukur |
Salman Daoud Dabby |
Moshiz Ita |
The Iraqi Government
Ministry of Justice
Baghdad
Editing Department
Number 7/1/194
Date 10 Rajab 1359
12 August 1940
To the Legal Drafter
Mr. Hafdi al-Adhami
This Ministry has decided to appoint you as the head of the electoral committee that we have appointed
from the individuals listed below, in order to supervise the elections of the Jewish community
in Baghdad. We hope you will take the necessary steps to convene the committee and commence
the tasks entrusted to it according to the applicable legal and regulatory provisions.
Minister of Justice
A copy to:
The Honorable Rabbi Salman Hoki Abboudi }
" Ibrahim Hayyim, Lawyer } We have previously appointed you as members of the
" Anwar Shaul, Lawyer } aforementioned electoral committee, hoping for
" Meir Elia } your regular attendance.
Ministry of Interior }
General Directorate of Police } For information and notice.
Presidency of the Jewish Community in Baghdad - For information and with reference to its letter No. 6033
dated 31/7/1940.
11/2/2
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15 / 8 / 40
Announcement
1- The Supervisory Board for Israeli Ushy has appointed
the locations for the following areas for the purpose of monitoring them in each area
and the days of Ushy are as follows:
Locations | Ushy Place | Ushy Day
First Area - Tatawan
Al-Rusafiya | Torah of Our Lord | Thursday 19 / 9 / 1946
Second Area - Taht al-Takiya ⟦unknown⟧
Bab al-Agha
Qanbar Ali | Shamoun School | Sunday 22 / of the same
Third Area - Al-Torah
Al-Qishla | Torah of Ushy | Monday 23 / of the same
Fourth Area - Hanoun al-Kabir
Hanoun al-Saghir
Souq al-Attar
Al-Karradat | Torah of Shukr | Tuesday 24 / of the same
Fifth Area - Al-Takiya
Al-Rashidiya | Torah of Fakhouri | Wednesday 25 / of the same
Sixth Area - Jadid Hassan Pasha
Al-Dahana
Al-Shorja
Al-Maidan
Al-Dahna
Al-Fadl
Al-Qala'a | Shammas School | Thursday 26 / of the same
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Neighborhoods | Location | Election Day
Second District - Ras al-Qarya | Laura Kadoorie Club | Sunday 4/29
Al-Sinak | |
Al-Murabba'a | |
Sababigh al-Al | |
Al-Bataween | |
Al-Karkh | |
Karrada al-Sharqiya (Inside and Outside) | |
Al-Dora (Gulbenkian Camp) | |
Saddat al-Hindi | |
Al-Dahana | |
Third District - Faraj Allah | Torah Taftah | Monday 4/30
Bani Said | |
1 - Every voter among the voters whose names are listed in the electoral lists who
are entitled to vote in the places designated for election above on the specified date
the posting of which continues for a period of eight days, so that anyone who has an objection to the contents of the tables
mentioned may consult the supervising neighborhood committee and inform them of their objection
during the aforementioned eight-day period.
2 - The voting hours will be from eight o'clock in the morning until sunset
on the days designated for the election.
Head of the Supervisory Body for the Elections
Israeli
⟦signature⟧
Presidency of the Jewish Community
in Baghdad
Number
Date September 9, 940
The Distinguished Newspaper
We request the publication of the attached advertisement in the issue of your newspaper published on Wednesday morning, September 11,
940. Sincerely;
⟦illegible signature⟧
Secretary
Al-Bilad
Al-Iraq
Al-Zaman
Al-Istiqlal
Al-Ahwal
Al-Alam Al-Arabi
Al-Rai Al-Aam
Sawt Al-Shaab
Announcement
The Supervisory Committee for the Israeli Elections has divided the neighborhoods into electoral
districts and designated a location for each district and the election days as follows:
Neighborhoods | Election Location | Election Day
First District - Khedouri - Bantran - Abu Saifayn | Torah Debisha | Thursday: 19/9/1940
Second District - Beit Laduya - Bab al-Agha - Qanbar Ali | Shamoun School | Sunday: 22nd of the same
Third District - Al-Torah - Al-Qashl | Torah Alliance | Monday: 23rd of the same
Fourth District - Hannoun - Al-Kahwa - Hannoun al-Saghir - Jewish Market - Al-Quwat | Torah Shukr | Tuesday - 24th of the same
Fifth District - Al-Qabu - Albu Shibl | Torah Ghazi | Wednesday - 25th of the same
Sixth District - Sadid - Hassan Pasha - Albu Shusha - Al-Saqiya - Al-Jadan - Al-Dashti - Imam Taha - Al-Kaldia - Al-Aqiliya | Shamash School | Thursday 26th of the same
Seventh District - Ras al-Qarya - Al-Sinak - Al-Murabba'a - Sayyid Sultan Ali - Al-Bab al-Sharqi - Al-Qarah Lul - Al-Baroudiya - Karradat Maryam - Souq al-Ghazal - Al-Dahana | Laura Khedouri Club | Sunday 29th of the same
Eighth District - Faraj Allah - Bani Said | Torah Ta'sa | Monday 30th of the same
2- The election lists containing the names of Israelis who are entitled to vote have been posted
in the designated election locations above from today's date and will remain posted for eight
days. Anyone who has an objection to the contents of the mentioned lists should consult the Mukhtar of the neighborhood
assigned to it and inform him of his objection during the mentioned eight days.
3- The voting hours will be from eight o'clock in the morning until sunset on the designated days
for the election -
Chairman of the Supervisory Committee for the Elections
Israeli
The Iraqi Government
Ministry of Justice
⟦coat of arms of the Kingdom of Iraq⟧
Please refer to the general number
Legal Drafting Department:
General Number: 7 / 1 / 261
Telegraphic Address: Adliya:
Date: 6 Sha'ban / 1359
8 September / 940
Subject Summary: Register of Rabbis
Presidency of the Jewish Community in Baghdad
The Supervisory Committee for the Jewish Elections decided in its
preliminary session held on 5 / 9 / 1940 to request your presidency to send
a register containing the names of all persons possessing the status of Rabbinate
and residing in Baghdad, as required by the provisions of Article (10) of the Jewish
Community Regulation. Therefore, please send the requested register to this office
as quickly as possible to facilitate the election.
⟦signature⟧
Chairman of the Supervisory Committee
for the Jewish Elections
2711
9 / 9 / 94
10 / T / 8
⟦faded text mirroring the main paragraph above⟧
⟦687⟧
9 September 940
Urgent
His Eminence the President of the Jewish Spiritual Council, the Respected
Baghdad
We transmit below the letter of the Ministry of Justice No. 7/1/191 dated 8 September 940 to respond to
its content as quickly as possible;
⟦illegible⟧
p.p. Head of the Community
The Supervisory Committee for the Jewish Elections decided in its preliminary session held
on 5 / 9 / 1940 to request your presidency to send a register containing the names of all persons
possessing the status of Rabbinate and residing in Baghdad, as required by the provisions of Article
(10) of the Jewish Community Regulation. Therefore, please send the requested register to this office
as quickly as possible for the success of the election.
President of the Supervisory Committee
for the Jewish Elections
True Copy
⟦illegible⟧
The Chief Rabbi of the community
Baghdad, may God protect it
Chief Rabbi of Baghdad Benjamin Hakham Moshi
CHIEF RABBI
BENJAMIN H. MOSHI
BAGHDAD
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Number: 927
Date: 8/12/1930
From the Gemilut Hasidim and Emet Society and Gemilut Hasadim
The honorable members of the aforementioned society in Baghdad
In the Holy City
After greetings and your peace, regarding letter number 6087 from 24/9/30
Please receive from the bearer, the honorable R. Salman R. Isaac, peace be upon him, the sum of 2715 (two thousand seven hundred and fifteen)
Rupees on account of the aforementioned Gemilut Hasidim and Emet Society from what is due to them from the estate of the late R. Isaac
G. Cohen Tripoli, of blessed memory, and peace and blessing as desired by the bearer and the aforementioned society, 1 Menachem Av
Benjamin
H. Moshe
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For Khalid Sarkis, preventer and listener in the land, and lemon and saffron in the land and a pot for a gift
K. Sh. Y. H.
A. A. Sh.
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From.. Mr. Sasson Kadoorie
( 1 )
Mr. Nissim Kadoorie.
( 2 )
Mr. Avraham Hugi Ovadia
( 3 )
Mr. Avraham Yosef Hayim
( 4 )
Mr. Rafael Yitzhak Hayim
( 5 )
Mr. Ezra Sasson Hamayek
( 2 )
Mr. Avraham Albert
" Yitzhak Salem Levy
" A. L. Sofer
" A. L. Avraham
( 3 )
Mr. Binyamin Mr. Shaul
( 6 )
Mr. Meir Mr. Yaakov
" Meir Ezra Ovadia
" Meir Eliyahu Avraham
( 12 )
Mr. Yehoshua Shimon Yehezkel
" Yosef Avraham Ovadia
" Yosef A. L. Sofer
" Yosef Hayim Ben Yitzhak
" Yosef Salem Levy
" Yehezkel Hugi Ovadia Chief Rabbi in Basra
" Yehezkel Ezra David Kadoorie
" Yehezkel Salem Matuk
" Yaakov Ezra Ovadia
" Yaakov Shaul Kadoorie
( 8 )
Mr. Ezra Yosef
" Shimon Avraham
" Shimon Mr. Yehezkel
Binyamin Mr.
⟦illegible signature⟧
6092
13 September 1940
Presidency of the Supervisory Body for the Israeli Elections
Ministry of Justice — Baghdad
Reference to your letter No. A/1/7 dated 8 September 1940
Enclosed you will find the list we received from the Chief Rabbinate containing the names
of the rabbis employed by the community in Baghdad, totaling twenty-seven
rabbis.
⟦illegible⟧
<del>⟦illegible⟧</del>
Head of the Community
1 Rabbi Sassoon Khedhouri
2 Rabbi Ibrahim Aslan
3 " Eliyahu Ibrahim
4 " Eliya Yehoshua
5 " Binyamin Hakham Moshe
6 " Heskel Hoki Abboudi
7 " Heskel Ezra Daoud Bechor
8 " Heskel Saleh
9 " Daoud Shaul
10 " Daoud Ezra Musfi
11 " Daoud Hakham Yaqub
12 " Raphael Ishaq Hayyim
13 " Sassoon Ezra Ishaq
14 " Salman Hoki Abboudi
15 Rabbi Saleh Yusuf Hayyim
16 " Moshe Ibrahim
17 " Moshe Hakham Heskel
18 " Michael Jeremiah
19 " Nissim Khedhouri
20 " Haron Saleh Dori
21 " Yaqub Shaul Balbul
22 " Yaqub Ezra Musfi
23 " Yehoshua Moshe Heskel
24 " Yusuf Ibrahim Ambar
25 " Yusuf Hayyim Moallem Ezra
26 " Yusuf Eliyahu Rabie
27 " Yusuf Saleh Dori
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Our General Letter Number: 6097
Dated: 7 / September 940
Announcement
Further to the previous announcement regarding the election of the Jewish community.
1- The Electoral Commission has decided that the number of members to be elected
from each region shall be according to the distribution as follows:
First Region - Tehran and its suburbs - (10) ten members.
Second Region - Shemiran and its suburbs - (6) six members.
Third Region - Torah and its suburbs - (5) five members.
Fourth Region - Makhzan al-Kibr and its suburbs - (4) four members.
Fifth Region - Taht al-Takiya and its suburbs - (2) two members.
Sixth Region - Oudlajan and its suburbs - (5) five members.
Seventh Region - Ras al-Qarya and its suburbs - (17) seventeen members.
Eighth Region - Zar' al-Sadd and its suburbs - (4) four members.
2- The Commission has decided that the election of the forty-seven members
for the aforementioned council will be on Friday, corresponding to 20 / 9 / 1940, at
eight o'clock in the morning at the headquarters of the community leadership.
Head of the Supervisory Committee
for the Jewish Elections
⟦signature⟧
Announcement
Further to the previous announcement regarding the election of the Jewish community
1 - The Electoral Commission has decided that the number of members to be elected from each district, in view
of its population, shall be as follows:
First District - Tatran and its dependencies - (10) ten members - Second District - Al-Sitt Hadia
and its dependencies - (6) six members - (Third District - Al-Tawrat and its dependencies - (5) <del>members</del> five members
Fourth District - Hanoun Al-Kabir and its dependencies - (4) four members - Fifth District - Taht
Al-Takiya and its dependencies - (2) two members - Sixth District - Jadid Hassan Pasha and its dependencies -
(5) five members - Seventh District - Ras Al-Qarya and its dependencies - (17) seventeen members -
Eighth District - Faraj Allah and its dependencies - (4) four members.
2 - The Commission has decided that the election of the seven spiritual members for the General Council shall be on Friday
corresponding to 20 / 9 / 940 at eight o'clock in the morning at the headquarters of the community leadership.
⟦signature⟧
Chairman of the Supervisory Committee
for the Jewish Elections
Baghdad 15 September 940
Al-Gharra' Newspaper
Please publish the announcement listed above in the issue of your newspaper published tomorrow morning, 16 September 940
⟦signature⟧
Secretary of the Jewish Community
Administration Baghdad -
9 September 940
To the Honorable Secretary of the Laura Kadoorie Club
After greetings and respect,
The Israeli Election Supervision Committee, formed by order of the Ministry of Justice, has decided to hold the elections
for the Seventh District at the Laura Kadoorie Club on Sunday, September 29, 940, from
eight o'clock Arabic time until sunset. We request that you kindly allow the posting of the voters' names at the entrance
of the club and give instructions to open the club for the elections on the designated day. We thank you in advance.
⟦illegible⟧
⟦On behalf of⟧
The Head of the Community.
Laura Kadourie Club
Baghdad
Telephone: 97
LAURA KADOURIE CLUB
BAGHDAD
TELEPHONE 97
Baghdad on: <del>8 September</del> 1948
Baghdad,: 1948
To the Honorable President of the Jewish Community
Greetings and respect
With reference to your letter dated 8 September 48, I am pleased to inform you that
the Administrative Committee has decided to accept your proposal and has taken the necessary measures to open the club on Sunday
corresponding to 12 September 948 to conduct the required elections, from three o'clock in the afternoon
until five-thirty in the afternoon.
With highest respect,
⟦signature⟧
Secretary
For filing
6092
15 September 940
His Excellency the Police Director of Baghdad Province, Respected
Based on the decision of the Supervisory Committee for the Jewish Elections in Baghdad, elections will take place in
the locations and times specified in the attached schedule. We request Your Excellency to instruct the presence of a number of
police officers at the mentioned locations and times to maintain order. With respect.
Sassoon
Head of the Community
⟦illegible⟧
✓ Rabbi Sassoon Khedouri
✓ <del>Rabbi Ibrahim Aslan</del> ✓ Rabbi Saleh Yusuf Hayyim
✓ - Eliyahu Ibrahim ✓ - Moshe Ibrahim
✓ - Eliya Yehoshua ✓ - Moshe Rabbi Heskel
✓ - Benjamin Rabbi Moshe ✓ - Michael Jeremiah
✓ - Heskel Hooki Aboudi X - Nadim Khedouri
✓ - Heskel Ezra Daoud Bechor X - Haron Saleh Dori
X - Heskel Saleh ✓ - Yaqub Shaul Balbul
✓ - Daoud Shaul ✓ - Yaqub Ezra Masfi
✓ - Daoud Ezra Masfi ✓ - Yehoshua Moshe Heskel
X - Daoud Rabbi Yaqub ✓ - Yusuf Ibrahim Amir
✓ - Raphael Isaac Hayyim ✓ - Yusuf Hayyim Moallem Ezra
✓ - Sassoon Ezra Isaac X - Yusuf Eliyahu Rabie
✓ - Salman Hooki Aboudi ✓ - Yusuf Saleh Dori
⟦illegible⟧
Rabbi Sassoon Khedhouri | Rabbi Saleh Yosef Hayyim
Rabbi Ibrahim Aslan | - Moshe Ibrahim
- Eliyahu Ibrahim | - Moshe Hakham Heskel
- Eliya Yehoshua | - Michael Yermia
- Binyamin Hakham Moshe | - Nassim Khedhouri
- Heskel Hoki Abboudi | - Haron Saleh Dori
- Heskel Ezra Daoud Bikhor | - Yaqub Shaul Balbul
- Heskel Saleh | - Yaqub Ezra Masfi
- Daoud Shaul | - Yehoshua Moshe Heskel
- Daoud Ezra Masfi | - Yosef Ibrahim Anbar
- Daoud Hakham Yaqub | - Yosef Hayyim Moallem Ezra
- Raphael Isaac Hayyim | - Yosef Eliyahu Rabia
- Sassoon Ezra Ishaq | - Yosef Saleh Dori
- Salman Hoki Abboudi |
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