AI English Translation, Pages 376-400
Iraqi Jews
Baghdad
8352 President
8045 Secretary
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Subject /:
The Administrative Guardianship Committee is the entity responsible for spending on the school and covering the deficit, which averages
ten thousand dinars. Attached is a copy of the committee's letter to the Directorate of Education regarding covering the deficit No. (5).
Heskel Menahem Vocational School:
This school was built in Al-Sinak on the endowed plot sequence 1/166 Sinak, and its license was withdrawn in the year
due to the lack of students and female teachers. Then it was leased by the Menahem Saleh Daniel School from 1951 until
196. In 1966, the Administrative Committee, according to its guardianship, leased it to Hasso Brothers Company for a rental fee
of 750/- dinars.
Ezra Menahem Daniel:
The late Ezra Menahem Daniel endowed ⟦207 / 504⟧ shares of the two properties sequence 2 and 4 / 57 Bab
according to the endowment deed issued by the Personal Status Court under number 33/45 and dated
45. Attached is a copy of it No. (6).
Endowment of properties sequence 4/1/212, 4/166, 1/1/212, 5/212, 3/166, and 1/166
Sinak according to the endowment deed issued by the Personal Status Court under number 134/44 and dated
44. Attached is a copy of the endowment deed No. (7). Note that these properties are registered in the Land Registry in the name of Heskel Menahem
and were transferred to his heir Ezra Menahem Daniel. Attached is a copy of the legal inheritance distribution No. (8).
These properties described above have not been registered in the Land Registry as an endowment.
These properties did not belong to the endower Ezra Menahem during his lifetime after he endowed them, so that they could
⟦pass⟧ to his heirs; rather, they are a fixed endowment according to the legal deeds mentioned above.
Accordingly, the trustee, the Administrative Committee, managed and leased them according to its guardianship, and they did not belong to the frozen assets
so that the Committee would have to notify them and submit a statement regarding them.
Since the frozen assets have been seized under the pretext of not being registered in the Land Registry and not
⟦recognizing⟧ the endowment deeds, the Administrative Committee, in turn, filed lawsuit No. 2618 / 68 in
the Baghdad Court of First Instance, requesting the removal of the seizure on the mentioned endowments. Attached is a copy of the lawsuit brief No. (9).
The Committee cannot provide any other opinion on this subject until the judiciary rules on the mentioned endowment,
whether the Committee acted lawfully in its capacity as trustee or whether it was negligent and the endowment is not recognized until
the Land Registry? This is what the judiciary will decide.
We submit herewith a table of the revenues of the properties endowed to Ezra Menahem Daniel in detail for each number and door
196 No. (10)
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in Baghdad
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Date:
Telephone No.: 83531 President / 80452 Secretary
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Fifth - Menahem Daniel Market:
The Administrative Committee, as we previously indicated, took over the Menahem endowments in 1962. The information available
to it regarding this market is:
There was a property called Khan Jaffal, sequence 57 Bab al-Agha, and it was divided into four khans, sequence
1 and 3 / 57 belonging to Saleh Qahtan and his partners, and 2 and 4 / 57 to the endowment of Menahem Daniel and Ezra Menahem
Daniel. The market was built, as far as we know, before 1929, and the respected investigative committee can
expand by requesting information from the Baghdad Land Registry Office / Rusafa /
Sixth - The Mosaic Community:
1 - The Mosaic Community is represented by the Administrative Committee for Iraqi Jews, and this committee
has its wise and moral personality and has the right to own movable and immovable property.
2 - This committee at the present time has its entity established by Law No. 67 of 1963 and in accordance with
the instructions of the Ministry of Justice published in the Iraqi Gazette No. 4104 dated 2/25/1958 (attached
is a copy of Instructions No. 11) and Law No. (13).
3 - The members of the Administrative Committee and its president were appointed by order of the Ministry of Justice No. 7 / 1 / 19 / 9
dated 1/26/1967, attached is a copy of it No. (12)
4 - The Ministry of Justice, according to the instructions, has supervision and monitoring over the work of the Administrative Committee, and that
is based on paragraph (4) of the mentioned instructions.
5 - The Mosaic Community Administration Law is still in effect, and your respected committee can approach
the Ministry of Justice in this regard.
6 - The Administrative Committee submits to the Ministry of Justice annually a report from the auditors and statements of its properties,
endowments, revenues, and expenditures, and the revenues and expenditures of its endowments to the Ministry of Justice.
Accordingly, all actions of the Administrative Committee are subject to the supervision of a government body (Ministry of Justice).
Please accept our highest respect.
Meer Basri
President of the Administrative Committee for Iraqi Jews
A copy of it to:-
The General Secretariat for Frozen Assets / for your kind information.
Attachments:
1 - A guardianship deed issued by the Baghdad Court of First Instance No. 197 dated July 28, 1924
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in Baghdad
Telephone Number { 83531 President
80452 Secretary
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2 — A table of the revenues of the Menahem Daniel Endowment starting from the year 1962.
3 — A letter from the principal of the Menahem Saleh Daniel School to the Ministry of Education regarding the transfer of the school to the Al-Sinak building,
letter number 272 and dated 6/14/1951.
4 — A letter from the Administrative Committee to the Ministry of Education requesting the renewal of the school license, letter number 620/63 and dated
1/27/1963.
5 — A letter from the Administrative Committee numbered 22/68 and dated 5/20/68 regarding covering the school deficit.
6 — The endowment deed issued by the Personal Status Court under number 33/45 Sh and dated 2/25/45
7 — " " " " " " " " 134/Sh 45 and dated 9/10/44
8 — A copy of the Sharia inheritance distribution issued by the Personal Status Court under number 34/43 Sh and dated 3/29/43
9 — A copy of the initial statement of claim numbered 2618/68
10 — A table of the revenues of the Ezra Menahem endowments starting from 1962.
11 — A copy of the Ministry of Justice instructions published in the Iraqi Gazette under number 4104 and dated 2/25/58
12 — A copy of Law No. 167 of 1963.
13 — A copy of the Ministry of Justice order appointing the members and the president of the current Administrative Committee numbered 91/19/1/7
and dated 1 / 26 / 1967.
In the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful
General Secretariat
For the Supervision and Management of the Property of Jews
Who Have Been Stripped of Iraqi Citizenship
Number / Secret / 84
Date 8 / 6 / 1969
Secretariat
Investigative Committee
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To / Mr. Meer Shaoul Basri - Chairman of the Administrative Committee for Iraqi Jews
Subject / Request for Information
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For investigative purposes and based on what this committee has decided, we are sending you herewith a copy of
the questions addressed to you, requesting an answer within ten days from this date
in two copies, accompanied by the documents and evidence that you believe the committee needs to review
and inform us.
Chairman of the Committee
Ali Mahdi Haidar
Head of the Administrative Inspection Body
Copy to: -
General Secretariat for Frozen Assets for information, please.
Khalid / 8 / 6
In the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful
General Secretariat
For the Supervision and Management of the Property of Jews
Whose Iraqi Citizenship Has Been Revoked
Investigative Committee
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Date: / / 196
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Q1 - Please state your information regarding properties 2 and 4 / 57 Bab al-Agha district and 1, 2,
3 and 4 / 166 Al-Sinak district and 1, 2, 3 and 4 / 212, provided that it includes
the following information: -
1 - The persons who were managing these properties when their management belonged
to the Jew Ezra Menachem Daniel and his heirs after him?
2 - The relationship of the Israeli community to them and when did it begin?
3 - The facilities built on them, the date of construction of these facilities, and the entity
that paid for them.
4 - How these facilities and other vacant plots, if any, were utilized,
their rental values, and the entity that was utilizing them, provided that the revenues are included
in detail for each door number?
5 - The persons who contact the tenants, hold them accountable for the rental values,
and receive them from them?
6 - Does the Israeli community have a special law for its management? Is it still in
effect? Does the Israeli community enjoy a legal personality such that
it owns immovable property and disposes of it? With a statement of the official documents
that support this?
7 - If you believe there is a relationship of the community to the ownership of these properties or the disposal
of them or a part of them or in any capacity, has the community previously submitted the
required statement to the General Secretariat for Frozen Assets after the revocation of citizenship from
the owners of these properties in accordance with the provisions of paragraph (b) of Article Five of
Regulation No. 3 of 1951 as they are partners in these properties?
Q2 - Where is the Ezra Effendi Menachem Daniel School located, sequence 1 / 166
Al-Sinak district, and when was it built? Where is it now? Who occupies it? In whose
name is this school registered? And a statement of the entity that manages this
school currently and previously, and the entity that receives its rental values if it is
leased, the amount of this rent, and the date of this lease.
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What is the relationship of this school to the Daniel School that used to occupy the building in Taht
al-Takiya and which recently moved to Arsat Bahoushi, and what is the relationship of the heirs of Menahem Daniel to
the properties built on the school's land when it was in Taht al-Takiya, as well as regarding the property
currently occupied by the school in Arsat Bahoushi?
Q 3 -
It was noted that both properties 57/2 and 57/4 in Bab al-Agha district contain shares that ⟦line⟧
their owner, Menahem Effendi Daniel, had endowed for the purpose of a Maktab building, i.e., a school, and for teaching Israeli
students therein, and that any surplus revenue from this endowment is to be spent on feeding the students
who attend the school and the poor. He appointed his sons Ezra Effendi and his nephew
Sassoon Effendi as trustees. The endowment of the mentioned shares was registered under the registration dated ⟦line⟧
April 28, 1928, Volume (70), based on the endowment decree issued by the Sharia Court
of Baghdad, No. 179 on 8 / Shawwal / 1338. The following is requested to be clarified: -
1- Clarification of the revenues of the remaining shares amounting to (207) shares for each of the two properties ⟦line⟧
57/2 and 57/4 Bab al-Agha, whose revenues were not endowed to any entity, starting from
the date their legal owners left Iraq and their citizenship was revoked until now:
2- Clarification of the entity that funded the construction of the Menahem Daniel Market on the two mentioned ⟦line⟧
plots regarding the endowed shares, and was an authorization for that issued by the Sharia Court ⟦line⟧
or by an official or judicial authority?
3- Clarification of the entity that was funding the building of the school to which the revenues of the mentioned shares
from the two aforementioned plots were endowed, from the date of its endowment in 1928 until
its transfer to the Community?
4- Clarification of the date the Community took over the trusteeship of this endowment and the legal basis ⟦line⟧
that authorized it to do so, and the amount of funds received by the Community since the date it began ⟦line⟧
the trusteeship until the date it was seized by the General Secretariat for Frozen Assets, along with the total
amounts spent by the Community to fulfill the endower's purpose?
5- Has the Community previously submitted annual statements of revenues and expenditures to the Sharia ⟦line⟧
Court or the entity that decided to appoint it as trustee to fulfill the trustee's liability as required by ⟦line⟧
the relevant laws? If so, please provide us with copies of these reports.
6- Which school is intended in the endowment deed, as it has been established to us that there was a school ⟦line⟧
built on plot 166/1 in the Al-Sinak district, which is now a vacant lot for rent, and it has not been confirmed to the committee
that it was an officially licensed school. Also, there was a school occupying the building in Taht
al-Takiya No. 34/3, which was built in 1910 and licensed on July 26, 1941, under No. ⟦line⟧
(149). This license was in the name of Saleh Shlemu, and after his death, it was transferred to the Administrative ⟦line⟧
Committee for Iraqi Jews under No. (325) on November 27, 1965, then this was moved ⟦line⟧
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this school and occupied one of the buildings in Arsat al-Bahoushi. Is the intention
of the waqif's conditions this school or the defunct school?
7- To whom does the ownership of the building that the school used to occupy in Taht al-Takiya belong,
No. 3 / 34, along with the other properties partitioned from it, and what is the relationship of the heirs of Menachem
Daniel, whose Iraqi citizenship was revoked, to these properties? And who is the entity
that utilized them previously and at the present time? Also, clarify the relationship of the heirs of Menachem Daniel,
whose Iraqi citizenship was revoked, regarding the property currently occupied by the school
in Arsat Bahoushi?
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Attachments:-
1- ⟦illegible⟧ 197 ⟦illegible⟧ 1949
2- ⟦illegible⟧ ⟦line⟧ ⟦illegible⟧ 24/8/1950
3- ⟦illegible⟧ 1929
4- ⟦illegible⟧ Ministry of Education ⟦illegible⟧
5- ⟦illegible⟧ 574 ⟦illegible⟧ 21/8/19
6- ⟦illegible⟧ File number ⟦illegible⟧
7- ⟦illegible⟧ 64/1/27
8- ⟦illegible⟧ No. 68/22 dated 28/5/1950 ⟦illegible⟧
9- ⟦illegible⟧ issued by the Senate ⟦illegible⟧ No. 45/22 dated 25/2/1950
10- ⟦illegible⟧ 44/89 dated 28/9/1944
11- ⟦illegible⟧ Personal Status No.
12- A copy of the court orders numbered 68/2318
13- A table of the community's revenues and expenses starting from the year 1934
14- A copy of the Ministry of Justice instructions published in the Gazette No. 4104 dated 5/10/1958
from Law No. 167 of 1928
15- A copy of the order issued by the Ministry of Justice appointing members and the supervisor of the defunct Administrative Council
numbered 7/8/98 dated 26/1/1937
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Top Secret
To the Honorable Director of the Investigative Governance
Greetings and respect
Reference to your letter numbered Secret / 84 / ⟦illegible⟧ on ⟦illegible⟧
Subject: Station
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I present below ⟦illegible⟧ the answers ⟦illegible⟧ inquiries
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Attachment No. (2)
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The deceased Saleh Shlomo, lease number 149 ⟦illegible⟧ 210 ⟦illegible⟧
2- ⟦illegible⟧ 1952 for not collecting donations ⟦illegible⟧ the clause in
Chapter ⟦illegible⟧ on the kindergarten ⟦illegible⟧ 162/8 and that ⟦illegible⟧ the fee
Fixed by the Ministry of Education according to its letter ⟦illegible⟧ numbered 274 and dated ⟦illegible⟧
We have a copy of it under number (4) ⟦illegible⟧ the state in the year ⟦illegible⟧
The administrative body's mandate over the Menahem Daniel endowments requested the cancellation of lease fees in other years
In its letter numbered 69/20 and dated 8/27/1957 ⟦illegible⟧
3- Due to the unsuitability of the building in previous years, the teacher in Hisat Kirsh in 1925
And the committee decided the ruling of the Administrative Committee No. 725 of 1925
4- Regarding leaving the building, the teacher in the delivery category ⟦...⟧ the committee in charge of the building
In the embassy and the current building in Hisat Kirsh, and he presented services regarding it ⟦...⟧
The teacher in those days
5- That the responsible Administrative Committee is the one supervising the school, and the committee without right ⟦...⟧
⟦...⟧ our letter - the committee to the Director of Education by the hand of the lawyer ⟦...⟧
⟦...⟧ the committee
⟦...⟧ in the years on the endowed kindergarten ⟦...⟧ 1961
⟦...⟧ due to the absence of students ⟦...⟧
⟦...⟧ Daniel year 51 ⟦...⟧ 1950
⟦...⟧ the Administrative Committee ⟦...⟧
The late Rima Daniel endowed 207/504 shares of the royal property number 4/57 Bab Al-Agha
According to the endowment deed issued by the Personal Status Court in Baghdad 45/27 dated 25/4/1945
And she appointed a trustee for it
And the lands of the properties sequence 1/4, 1/12, 1/214, 5/214, 2/161 and ⟦...⟧
According to the endowment deed issued by the Personal Status Court in Baghdad 44/844
On 10/9/44, a copy of the endowment deed No. (8) stating that these properties are
In the land registry in the name of Hanina Menachem Daniel, and it included that the share of Ezra Menachem Daniel is registered
From the ground building No. (9)
The aforementioned properties were not registered in the Land Registry as an endowment
⟦...⟧ for the endower to add them during her lifetime, however
Many of these properties are endowments, rather they are a second endowment according to official deeds
Accordingly, the Administrative Committee stopped, and now its trusteeship has not been answered, nor was
The charitable funds have any relation to those whom the committee supervises and submits a statement about
5- As for the charitable funds, possession was described by virtue of being in the Land Registry
And not paying attention to the endowment deeds, the Administrative Committee has <del>received</del> ⟦...⟧
According to ⟦...⟧ and requested the handover of possession, and the General Committee ⟦...⟧
Frank Iny School
Intermediate and Primary
Baghdad
Telephone 91693
Number: Kh / 647 / 55
Date: 20 / 2 / 1955
D. Wycer & Co.
Semiramis Building, Baghdad
Greetings,
We have paid to Madame Combatin, wife of Mr. Combatin, an employee in your company,
an amount of (55/000) Dinars for her lecture fees at this school
for the months of January and February 1955, as detailed below. Please add this to
her husband's income for income tax calculation purposes.
Please accept our highest thanks and respect.
Fils | Dinar
750 | 24 | January 1955
750 | 30 | February ⟦line⟧
500 | 55 | ⟦line⟧
Abdullah Oweidia
Director
Copy to:-
General Directorate of Income Tax - for information
Madame Combatin
SHAMASH SECONDARY SCHOOL
BAGHDAD
Tel. No. 91693
Shamash Preparatory School
Baghdad
Telephone 91693
Subject:
No: SH / 28 / 55
Date: 20 / 2 / 55
Administration of Kadhimiya Secondary School for Boys - Baghdad
Greetings,
We have paid Mr. Yusuf Haddad an amount of 39/- Dinars
as fees for his lectures at this school for the months (November 1954 /
February 1955) as detailed below. Please add this to his income for the
purpose of calculating income tax. Please accept our great thanks and respect.
Fils | Dinar
⟦line⟧ | 9 | November 954
⟦line⟧ | 10 | December 1954
⟦line⟧ | 12 | " January 955
⟦line⟧ | 12 | February 955
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⟦signature⟧
Abdullah Muayyad
The Director
Copy to :-
General Directorate of Income Tax - for information
Directorate of Education of Baghdad Province
Mr. Yusuf Haddad
61091
Number: F / ⟦655⟧ / 1955
Date: 16 / 4 / 195⟦5⟧
D. Weir & Co.
Semiramis Building, Baghdad
Greetings,
We have paid to Madame Compatienne, wife of Mr. Compatienne, an employee
in your company, an amount of 24/750 Dinars for her lecture fees at this
school for the month of March 1955. Please add this to her husband's income
for the purpose of calculating income tax.
Please accept our highest respects.
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The Director
Abdullah Huwaid⟦iya⟧
A copy to:-
General Directorate of Income Tax - for information
Madame Compatienne.