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IJA 3699

Arranging Travel for Operation Ezra & Nehemiah; Issues Pertaining to Jews Abrogating Citizenship

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These are archival documents from the Baghdadi Jewish community. This item contains documents and correspondences pertaining to Baghdadi Jews abrogating their Iraqi citizenship in order to travel abroad. Included is an offer from a travel company about arranging transportation for the airlift of Iraqi Jews from Iraq to Israel (Operation Ezra and Nehemiah), complaints to the Iraqi government concerning police interference with Jews traveling, announcements to the Baghdadi Jewish community about opportunities to learn more about the citizenship laws and to forfeit citizenship, and correspondence between the government and the Jewish community concerning citizens who desire to forfeit their citizenship but have complicated circumstances. The item also contains letters in Judeo-Arabic, many which include community members' names.

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Archive Reference
IJA 3699
Item Number
10158
Date
Approx. January 1, 1941 to December 31, 1950
Languages
Multiple Languages
Keywords
Telegram, Judeo-Arabic, Burial Society, Revenue Stamp, Synagogue, Newspaper, Baghdad Light and Power, Charity, Thumbprint, Typed, Basrah, Baghdadi Jewish Community, Clipping, Electricity Bill, Ministry of the Interior, Crown Crest, President of the Baghdadi Jewish Community, Ink Stamp, Spiritual Council, Meir Elias Hospital, Travel, Letterhead, Income Tax, Communist, Abrogation of Citizenship, Postage Stamp, Photographs, Envelope, Israel, Ministry of Social Affairs, Receipt, Office of Transportation and Traffic Police, Correspondence, Annotation, Anti Semitism, Jewish Schools Committee, Anti-Jewish

AI English Translation, Pages 426-450

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Baghdad, June 27, 1950
His Excellency, the President of the Jewish Community, Respected
Baghdad
My son Fawzi, who is two and a half years old, is in a critical condition as a result of a fall and the fracturing
of his skull bones, which has led to the obstruction of the sensitivity of the eye nerves and hemiplegia requiring immediate treatment outside Iraq
as indicated by the medical committee in its attached certificate.
Since I, my wife Mazli Salman, and her sister, the nurse Juliet Salman, have all renounced
our Iraqi citizenship under serial numbers 4268, 4297, and 4270, we beg for our immediate deportation to save our child, especially after
the medical committee indicated the necessity of performing the operation within a period not exceeding three days.
With respect to your Excellency ⟦line⟧ Sir.
Mordy Israel

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209
T / 1429 / 50
6 / / 1950
His Excellency the Director of Travel and Nationality Police
Baghdad
After greetings,
We submit herewith the original of the two petitions submitted to us by Abboudi
Israel and Samira Haskil Fathi, along with their attachments of medical reports related to them,
for your kind review. It will be apparent to Your Excellency from their content that there is an urgent
necessity for the two patients to travel accompanied by their family members outside Iraq as quickly
as possible to undergo the surgery they require, as recommended by the specialist doctors.
In view of the prior completion of the process of renouncing their citizenship according to the serial
numbers mentioned in the two aforementioned petitions, I request your kindness in considering
the matter of their deportation from the country as quickly as possible. With highest
respect ⟦line⟧ ;
⟦signature⟧
Acting Head of the Community
President of the Lay Council
/
⟦illegible⟧
6 / 27
⟦illegible⟧

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Committee for the Revocation of Citizenship and Deportation
Baghdad
20
Number 52
Date 10/18/1950
Presidency of the Jewish Community
Baghdad
No. 5 / 1105 T
Date 10/19/50
Administration of Monsieur Tweg
This committee agreed in its session held on 10/16/1950 to continue paying
allowances to the Mukhtars whose names are mentioned below, amounting to twenty-five dinars per month, in exchange for their efforts in
citizenship revocation cases. Please pay it to the aforementioned persons starting from October 1, 1950.
As for their petition submitted to us regarding the request to increase their allowances, this committee
regrets its inability to approve that. Please inform them.
Name of the Mukhtar | Neighborhood
Mr. Gurji Shmuli | Mukhtar of Tatran neighborhood
Mr. Selim Shalam | Mukhtar of Al-Tawrat neighborhood
Mr. Sasson Dallal | Mukhtar of Qanbar Ali neighborhood
Mr. Isaac Ibrahim Ezra | Assistant Mukhtar of Faraj Allah neighborhood
Mr. Ezra Mukammal | Mukhtar of Taht Al-Takiya neighborhood
Mr. Abbas Mustafa | Mukhtar of Al-Bataween neighborhood
⟦signature⟧
The President
A copy of it to:
Presidency of the Lay Council - for your kind information.
For the Council
S
To be kept
⟦signature⟧
10/20
Accounts
For notice
To the file
Revocation of Citizenship

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Presidency of the Jewish Community
in Baghdad
Telephone Number { 3531
5452
Number /: 525 / 8 / 1950
Date :: / / 1950
211
Subject:
Directorate General of Revenues - Baghdad -
Greetings,
I would like to present to your Excellency that some benefactors are accustomed to offering to the Menashi Saleh Shelter located near
Al-Shorja, which contains more than a thousand people, their vows of sacrifices from time to time for the purpose of feeding them. And when
the shelter administration sees that the sacrifices offered by these benefactors are not sufficient for all the poor people in it, it is forced
⟦...⟧ to purchase meat in cash from the donations it receives from the charitable people who provide money instead of sacrifices.
Therefore, we request that you issue your orders to the supervisor of the Shorja Consumption Center to consider what is slaughtered of sheep in this shelter
as not subject to consumption fees, out of a desire to help these poor people.
Please accept our respect;
On behalf of the Acting Head of the Community
Vice President of the Lay Council
Copy to -
- Administration of the Menashi Saleh Shelter - for information
True to the original
A / 31 / 8

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T/1535/50
1/9/1950
Directorate of General Revenues - Baghdad
Greetings,
I would like to present to your Excellency that some benefactors have been accustomed to providing for the Menashi Saleh Shelter located
near Al-Shorja, which contains more than a thousand people whom they visit from time to time for the purpose of feeding them. And when
the shelter administration sees that the sacrifices provided by these benefactors are not sufficient for all the poor people in it, it is forced
at that time to purchase meat in cash from the donations it receives from the zealous people who provide money instead of sacrifices.
Therefore, we request that you issue your orders to the supervisor of the Shorja Consumption Center to consider the sheep slaughtered in this shelter
as not subject to consumption fees, in a desire to help these poor people.
Please accept our respect;
On behalf of the Head of the Community
Vice President of the Lay Council
Copy to -
Menashi Saleh Shelter Administration - for information
True copy
⟦illegible⟧
Secretary
1/10/20

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Iraqi Government
Ministry of Social Affairs
Directorate of Public Health
Directorate of Capital Health
Health Notice
Number / 212
Date / 19 / 8 / 950
Place and Number: The Jewish Community
Name of Occupant
Inspection Date: 16 / 8 / 950
Health Violations
1- The Torah shelter in Park Al-Saadoun neighborhood No. 11/25 belonging to you
has public toilets adjacent to the house of Sadiq Jaafar No. 11/26
which makes its walls a filter for filth and foul odors
2- Its urinary tanks are full and their filth is leaking into the neighboring house
⟦mentioned⟧ above, all of which makes exposure to diseases inevitable due to the presence of damage to public health
Employee Warnings
1- The public toilets must be isolated and moved away from the house of the complainant
Sadiq Jaafar.
2- You must clean the shelter's tanks constantly and ensure
that their filth does not leak immediately and urgently from its leakage and its harm
to the health of your neighbors.
A copy to: - 1 The Second Health Zone
for follow-up and in reference to his report No. 179
dated 16 / 8 / 950
Director of Capital Health
Signature of the Occupant
Note: - If the violator does not complete the repairs listed above within one week from this date, he will be presented to the Penal Court of the Capital Health Directorate.

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Presidency of the Jewish Community
in Baghdad
Date: 22 / 9 / 950
Respected Mr. Daoud Shemesh
After greetings
I attach herewith the original health notice addressed to us
regarding the damage that occurred in the neighboring properties
as a result of the leakage of waste from the sanitary facilities into
the adjacent walls. I request that you take the necessary measures to ensure
that the aforementioned waste does not leak into the neighboring properties.
Sincerely.
⟦signature⟧
Daoud Shemesh
For filing
⟦illegible⟧

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His Excellency the Honorable Minister of Interior
Presented to Your Excellency
Sir
We, the undersigned residents of Nasiriyah, our families had completed the renunciation of their citizenships
in Nasiriyah a long time ago. When they came to Baghdad two months ago to receive their passports,
the Directorate of Travel and Nationality Police informed them to reside in the Rachel Shahmoon School. Upon our families'
follow-up to finalize the process, the Director of Travel Police informed them that they are not allowed to travel or leave Iraq
with their children unless the citizenship renunciation process for their husbands is completed, noting that the Nasiriyah police conducted
the renunciation process without informing our families of the necessity of renouncing the husbands' citizenship. This is something we
were ignorant of and is known only to those in authority. Consequently, we have remained in Baghdad all this time in the aforementioned
school. Since we are without work and without a source of livelihood or income after the renunciation process of our
citizenships was conducted, and now we have not received any travel order to leave Iraq, every time we check with the Directorate of Travel
and Nationality Police, they inform us that our case is still with Your Excellency. Sir, our situation has reached an
unbearable level, and the pen may fail to depict that miserable condition and the bitter days passing over us and our
children. What will happen when winter approaches, knowing that the administration of the aforementioned school has warned us of the necessity
to leave the school eight days from this date? We do not know to whom to turn, which will force us to
live in the streets as we have no shelter, unless the Jewish community extends a helping hand and finds us
shelter and provides for our living.
Sir, your magnanimity refuses to let our case remain unresolved and for us and our families to remain without shelter and without
a provider. Therefore, we have come with this petition, pleading with Your Excellency to be so kind as to look upon our case with
sympathy by issuing your order to complete our transaction so that we can travel and leave Iraq, as expected
from your noble person.
Form Number | Head of Family Name | Petitioner
180 | Salim Sayoun Afirib | ⟦signature⟧
93 | Musa Hasqeel | ⟦signature⟧
131 | Israel Hasqeel | ⟦signature⟧
130 | Abed Youssef | ⟦signature⟧
105 | Munir Shamil | Munir Shamil
153 | Hasqeel Yaqub | ⟦signature⟧
1/10/1950
Copy to -
Head of the Jewish Community in Baghdad
Urgent
A copy is sent to the Renunciation and
Deportation Committee for kind attention
to the urgent case and to follow it with sympathy
1/10

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T / 1555 / 501
6 / 10 / 1950
Copy ⟦...⟧
Presidency of the Committee for Renunciation and Deportation
Baghdad
After greetings
We transmit to you below a copy of the petition from the people of Nasiriyah submitted to His Excellency the Minister of Interior, and a copy of it to us, for your kind consideration
with sympathy, and may you remain ⟦line⟧
On behalf of the Acting Head of the Community
Vice President of the Lay Council
Copy of the Petition
His Excellency the Respected Minister of Interior
Presented to Your Excellency
Sir
We, the undersigned residents of Nasiriyah, our families had completed the renunciation of their citizenships in Nasiriyah a long time ago, and when they came
to Baghdad two months ago to receive their passports, the Directorate of Travel and Nationality Police informed them to reside in the Rachel Shahmoon School, and when
our families followed up to finalize the transaction, the Director of Travel Police informed them that they and their children are not allowed to travel and leave Iraq unless
the renunciation of their husbands' citizenships is completed, noting that the Nasiriyah police processed the renunciation without informing our families of the necessity of renouncing the citizenship
of their husbands, and this is something we are ignorant of and only those in authority know. Therefore, we have remained in Baghdad all this time in the aforementioned school
⟦...⟧ and since we are without work and without a source of livelihood and income after our citizenship renunciation process took place, and now we have not received any order
to travel to leave Iraq, and every time we checked with the Directorate of Travel and Nationality Police, they told us that our case is still with Your Excellency. Sir, we have reached
a state that is unbearable, and the pen may fail to depict that miserable situation and the bitter days passing over us and our children. So what will happen
if winter approaches, knowing that the administration of the aforementioned school warned us of the necessity to leave the school after eight days from this date, and we do not know to whom
we should turn, which will force us to live in the streets as we have no shelter unless the Jewish community extends a helping hand and finds us a shelter
and provides for our living.
Sir, your magnanimity refuses to let our case remain unsolved and our families become homeless and without a supporter. Therefore, we have come with this petition of ours
imploring Your Excellency to be so kind as to look upon our case with sympathy by issuing your order to complete our transaction so that we can travel and leave Iraq,
and that is what we expect from your noble person.
For filing / based on
⟦...⟧
10/7

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T/ 50/ ⟦10/5/1⟧
10/ /1950
-2-
Form Number | Name of the Head of Family
180 | Salim Sayon Aqayrab
93 | Moussa Haskeel
131 | Israel Haskeel
130 | Abed Youssef
105 | Munir Shamil
153 | Haskeel Yaqub
Copy to -
Head of the Israelite Community in Baghdad
10/5/1

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Presidency of the Israelite Community
in Baghdad
Telephone No. } 3531 President
5452 Secretary
Number:
Subject:
Date: 15 / 7 / 1950
To the Honorable Refuge of the Heart, Mr. Abji Shmuel
Secretary of the Israelite Community - Mosul
After greetings and respect,
I received with much gratitude your dear letter, which included a letter
from the Directorate of the Travel and Residence Officer in Baghdad regarding the (prohibition)
of Mr. Nashi Ishaq Jassim, and you have overwhelmed me with your kindness for this
favor, and I hope you will excuse me for the ⟦distress⟧ that occurred, by the grace of God.
May God grant me success in rewarding you with goodness. However, I did not find any trace of any letter
regarding the second prohibition numbered 2294 and dated
10/5/1950 addressed to the Presidency of Execution in Mosul, so I would be
grateful for your kindness if you would ⟦inform me⟧ about this prohibition, whether
it has been lifted or is still here.
And the blessing is in the utmost ⟦gratitude⟧ if <del>⟦illegible⟧</del> and He granted us success.
Sincerely,
Hifzi
17/7
⟦signature⟧

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Iraqi Government
Ministry of Finance
Directorate General of Revenues
Section (Consumption)
Number 21466
Date 18 / 1 / 1370 AH
25 / 10 / 1950 AD
Presidency of the Jewish Community
Number ⟦...⟧ T / 50 / 1115
Date S / 10 / 50
212
Subject: Exemption of livestock from tax
Consumption
Presidency of the Jewish Community in Baghdad
Reference to your petition numbered 1535 and dated
1 / 9 / 1950.
Article 3 of the Livestock Consumption Tax Law
and its products did not provide for the exemption of livestock donated by their owners or which
are purchased with donations from benefactors ⟦to feed⟧ refugees from the consumption tax
Therefore, this Directorate regrets that it was not possible to fulfill your request.
Director General of Revenues
A copy of it to: -
Chief of Consumption Inspectors of Baghdad Province - for information.
For filing
⟦illegible⟧

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⟦illegible stamp⟧
- 1 -
My dear and honorable Salim,
After greetings and respect,
After peace be upon you and inquiring about your dear and kind well-being,
My dear, the bearer of this letter is a family member and the son of my
maternal uncle. A sentence was passed against him in absentia in 1969 along with a group of
his brothers who are in Baghdad custody, a sentence in absentia of 15
and seven years. During the time this sentence was issued against him, it was
as if he was not notified, unlike those who are in prison. Now he is free from
surveillance; only his brothers are imprisoned, and the sentence has been
executed against them. Now he moves with complete freedom and travels by
airplane, and all his paperwork regarding surveillance is finished. He is now present,
but in the airplane records, he is missing during the ongoing sentence against him and from
the Military Revolutionary Council. His father went back to the court and they told
him, "We have nothing in our hands," and the difference is that his file is missing
and he was sentenced. Thus, it was mentioned to him to check with the Ministry of Defense in Baghdad
so that you can prove you were present in the room and have no connection to that,
and be given a certificate to that effect so that this sentence against him can be lifted
considering you were present in the room. In this regard, I hope,
my dear, that we perform his duties, as he does not fall short with anyone and is a man of
favors and has nothing. Even the airplane fee, a group and he
paid it for him on his behalf. We have no one but God and you to follow up
for him in the Ministry of Defense as necessary to finalize his paperwork.
Many thanks to you, and he is very grateful, and a telegram
of ten people, all of whom pray for you if you resolve this
problem for him. We are relying on God and on you in this
matter, no except ⟦illegible⟧ and may you remain safe.
⟦line⟧
We inform you that there is good news from him in the report which
dated 2/8/70 came from Benjamin Moshi from
the Regular Revenue Department in Baghdad, Sandur village.
Sincerely,
⟦signature⟧

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Dropped
For filing
①
Thursday 10-19-1950
His Excellency the President of the Jewish Community in Iraq, Respected
After greetings and respect
My dear sir, we are a group of soldiers whose citizenship has been revoked and our numbers
are between five thousand and eight thousand. We beg of your Excellency
to clarify our cases inside the Saad camp in Baqubah
that racism among the soldiers in our school is very, very widespread and the injustice
is more than necessary. Following this, the work has piled up on us
and we number about ten soldiers, among them two soldiers in prison
and eight others inside the company, and the rest are people who
were arrested by the military police in our neighborhoods for a long time ⟦included⟧
⟦by crossing out⟧ the tax, and it is not us, meaning we were born in 1921, but
from the births of 920 - 927 - 926 - 921 / 922 also
and our names are as follows
1- Nahum Daoud - this soldier is very poor, even we
the soldiers help him among ourselves, and they arrested him
while he was returning to his home, and as soon as they arrested him, they sent him immediately
to prison, and his case is as follows: he was born in 926 and
as soon as he was sent to Al-Washash, he fled without receiving military
clothes, and he works in the horse racing track with him, his mother and his brother

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②
And the soldier Ibrahim Yaqub Ishaq: a soldier born in <del>⟦illegible⟧</del> 1929
⟦When⟧ they arrested him, his birth year was 1921 and his drop-out number
5296 and he is now inside the camp
And the other, Eliyahu Eliya: the soldier in the camp, they arrested him while he was
at the beginning of his profession in his remains, and he is married with a son and a daughter
his drop-out number is 7121.
And Hasil Menashi Eliyahu, his number is 10677, also inside the company
And we all request of your Excellency that you look into our case
this, because all the soldiers who were in the camp have been discharged and
none remain except us, and the work is accumulated upon us very, very much, and this
is a duty upon us, but rather dustiness and hatred are spread among us, and from those who
we do not have an order for, we pay a substitute because our case above has been witnessed
And we are from the southern residents, until this day we have not gone down to Baghdad
And the punishment upon us is detention, but we seek mercy from your Excellency because
we have no one to help us but you, I hope you will have mercy on us in this case of ours, and to you
thanks, and may you remain.
The petitioner for you, the mercy-seekers
The soldiers in Saad Camp
Baqubah

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2
And his number in the drop-out list is 10615
The one younger than him, then they took him out with him and after that they drove him to prison
And from the date 14-8-1950 until now they have not brought him to any court
And he remains in prison and his crime is being solitary without documents or debt
And the other: Ibrahim Khadouri, and he was born in 1927, he was arrested during
his wandering near the Al-Shatoub Institute and they drove him while he was attending a school
Ali Amin Sura, and his number in the drop-out list is 7292 and he is in the third
intermediate grade
And the other: Salim Latif: a school student in the third commercial grade
He was arrested during his father's travel, meaning when his father traveled
to the airport, he traveled to the detention center in the Defense and he is attending
the Ali Amin Sura school and he has neither shelter nor
expenses, he is pale, sick and works in hard
labor and his number is 5511
And the other: born in 1922, while he was returning to his home that evening
the discipline arrested him and today they drove him to the camp
And he was born in 1921 while we read the birth year in his drop-out number
with his father 1922 and his drop-out number, meaning his father, is 6801
Then the other: Saykali Moshi, and they arrested him at the Income Tax and he is
born in 1921 and the drop-out number is 7807
1- Hamoudi Salem: and this soldier is also in the camp, his number is 7662
2- Youssef Saleh: and this soldier is also in the camp, his number is 5629
born in 921

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Page No. 25 Royal Iraqi Prisons
Nominal list of a prisoner
Date ⟦22 / 10 / 950⟧ Number ⟦line⟧
Register Number | Name of prisoner, gender, profession and place of residence | Crime and article of the Baghdad Penal Code convicted under | Sentence | Date of sentence | Sentencing court | Court of appeal and result of appeal | Age | Health status | Conduct in prison | Number of previous crimes | Number and dates of government orders issued against him
119218 | Hayim Yusuf
Jewish
⟦...⟧
In the place of the Torah
Baghdad | ⟦...⟧ | Three years ⟦...⟧ | ⟦...⟧ | ⟦...⟧ | ⟦...⟧ | ⟦22⟧ |  |  |  |
Data upon affirmation
Government Press 811 - 10 - 44
Signature Prison Director / Officer

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Presidency of the Jewish Community
T / 1114 / 50
25 / 7 / 50
2140
119918
Baghdad 19 / 7 / 1950
His Excellency the Respected President of the Jewish Community through His Excellency the Respected Director of Baghdad Central
Prison.
My Lord, I am the prisoner Habib Hayyim Yusuf, sentenced to three years. I had proposed to
Miss Najia Ezra in the ninth month of 1949 through Rabbi Shimon, and her house number
is now ⟦22 / 185⟧ in the ⟦?⟧ Sha'ban area, and we have become by law and Sharia fully
bound to each other. And here I have come now to inform you that my fiancée has renounced
her Iraqi citizenship in order to travel outside Iraq, and since I do not agree to
her traveling without me, I request you to kindly take the necessary measures to prevent her from traveling until I am released
from prison.
We always come to you thanking you for your fatherly compassion, which we are in dire
need of in such difficult circumstances. This is for your command, sir.
The Petitioner
Prisoner Habib Yusuf
575
21 / 7 / 1950
Submitted to His Excellency the Prison Director
To certify the identity of the prisoner
Rabbi of Baghdad
Qal'a - 2
Unemployed
Number 697
Date 24 / 7 / 50 The original with a second copy is referred to the Citizenship Renunciation Committee
Director of Baghdad Prison
Referred to the Renunciation and Deportation Committee as per jurisdiction:
Number: T / 1582 / 50:
Date 25 / 7 / 50:
On behalf of the President of the Jewish Community
President of the Lay Council
Acting President of the Community
President of the Lay Council

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The Lay Council
of the Israelite Community * Baghdad
My dear brother, the respected Director of Accounting
After greetings
The bearer of this has been assigned 4 pieces of land that
were sequestered with her. Please study them for the purpose of being able to know
the possibility of registering them in the name of the Community. And how many Dinars
the verifications require, and I thank you.
The Lawyer
⟦signature⟧
Naji Chadbat
24 / 10 / 950
Zaidan agreed
⟦line⟧
I studied the situation and saw that the four pieces
the four are 45 and 89 corner and that the four
pieces were not referred to by the accountant, perhaps according to
the performance of the interest of the sectors that are in the lands
the transaction requires expenses of fifteen Dinars
fourteen Dinars -

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50/10/25
For action
⟦illegible⟧
To the Honorable President of the Israelite Community
Sincere greetings
After embracing you, we kiss your eyes and your hands
First, asking about your tobacco, may you be well, our health is good
And we lack nothing but seeing you, and we desire the continuation of good
health to accompany you and a long life crowned with wellness
Dear Father, after the farewell, I dedicate my greetings to your presence
wishing you happiness and prosperity and with your success
and granting you health and joy
Hoping the Creator, Almighty and Majestic, will grant you permanent
success, which we ask God to sustain for you, and God is the guardian of
success
My dear, as you know, humans are subject to what befalls them
of injustice and distress, as is our situation today
where we cannot fly to escape the injustice
And this letter of mine is to ask for your rescue and your consideration
for us with assistance and salvation, and we are the ones seeking rescue
three persons with their families, and we aim and desire
to emigrate, be displaced, and travel outside the country
And we did not know by what way we can escape and be saved from the hands of
the Islamic world in Daquq, and we have arranged all
our group for travel and to go outside the country
So all our work has become suspended and we have no means
to work, so we have come to ask for your rescue, and I am the supplicant Ibrahim Salman
residing in the sub-district of Sahat al-Hawija with my family
I live in the town of Kirkuk and I have a house
and shops and grain which they have seized from my hands
and my life is in danger, and the names of the worker and his family
with generosity and with his goodness will ⟦illegible⟧ be elevated by Ismail
Rotor Shlomo with generosity and with his goodness
And I am waiting in defense and in loss and awaiting
the answer from your Excellency, and rescue and mercy, and we are waiting
for your rescue
The supplicant Ibrahim Salman, a Jew residing in
the center of the sub-district of Sahat al-Hawija
Ibrahim Salman
1950/10/25
⟦illegible⟧

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217
Honorable Secretary,
Attached herewith are (4) Tabu deeds for four plots of uninvested residential land
located in the Battaween district, Karrada Al-Sharqiya (near the old racecourse) belonging to Juliet Suleiman Shukurji.
The total area of these four plots is 860 square meters. The owner claims that she purchased them
several years ago for the sum of 2,500 Dinars, and when she offered them for sale now, no more than 500 Dinars was offered.
She therefore wishes to donate them to the Community.
The lawyer, Mr. Cohen Saqal, has studied these maps and informed me that it is necessary to carry out
the free transfer transaction for these plots and transfer them to the Community, a matter which requires various expenses
ranging between 150 - 200 Dinars.
Kindly review and order what you deem appropriate, noting that the owner of these plots is not
prepared to pay the expenses and - in case the donation is approved - the Community must bear them. With regards.
25 / 10 / 950
⟦signature⟧
Secretary of the Properties Committee
For filing
The deeds were delivered
⟦illegible⟧
Dropping
By hand
These deeds were returned and filed
claiming that she will return them before
the dropping, and therefore they are to be filed
⟦signature⟧
11/7

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T / 1589 / 500
1 / 11 / 1950
⟦Urgent Duplicate⟧
Honorable Mr. Elias Gabbay
Secretary of the Denaturalization Committee
⟦Presidency of the Jewish Community⟧
⟦Baghdad⟧
Greetings,
Based on the order of His Excellency the President, I request obtaining copies of the following administrative orders and letters previously provided to
the denaturalization officials.
Letter Number | Date | Employee Name
1383 | 9 / 5 / 1950 | Daoud Salim (Shukur Synagogue Center)
1384 | " | Ashir Heskel (Great Synagogue Center)
1385 | " | Eliahu Shaul (Ezra Daoud Synagogue Center)
1386 | " | Shaul Raphael (Meir Tweig Synagogue Center)
1387 | " | Saleh Aboudi ( " " " )
1388 | " | Shmuel Mahlouq ( " " " )
1389 | " | Haron Naqqash ( " " " )
1390 | " | Khedhouri Abdullah ( " " " )
1391 | " | Yaqub Koji ( " " " )
1392 | " | Khedhouri Eliahu ( " " " )
1393 | " | Yusuf Dalah ( " " " )
1394 | " | Farid Abdullah ( " " " )
1395 | " | Naji Yaqub ( " " " )
1396 | 15 / 5 / 1950 | Isaac Daoud Soweir (Mas'uda Shemtob Synagogue)
" | " | Saleh Shammash ( " " " )
" | " | Heskel Ezra ( " " " )
I would be most grateful if you would give this matter special attention in view of His Excellency the President's emphasis.
Please accept my respects;
Sincerely,
⟦Saleh⟧
Secretary
1 / 11 / ⟦1950⟧
Notified in the presence of Khedhouri Abdullah
⟦signature⟧

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1 / 11 / 1950
Honorable Mr. Al-Basakji,
Secretary of the Denaturalization Committee
Greetings,
Based on the order of His Excellency the President, I request the procurement of copies of the following administrative orders and letters that were previously provided to
the denaturalization officers.
⟦Denaturalization Committee⟧
⟦...⟧
⟦...⟧
Letter Number | Date | Employee Name
1383 | 5/9/1950 | Daoud Salim (Shukur Synagogue Center)
1384 | " | Ashir Heskel (Great Synagogue Center)
1385 | " | Eliahu Shaul (Ezra Daoud Synagogue Center)
1386 | " | Shaul Raphael (Meir Tweig Synagogue Center)
1387 | " | Saleh Abboudi ( " " " " )
1388 | " | Shamil Maatouk ( " " " " )
1389 | " | Haron Fattal ( " " " " )
1390 | " | Khedhouri Abdullah ( " " " " )
1391 | " | Yaqub Kurji ( " " " " )
1392 | " | Khedhouri Eliahu ( " " " " )
1393 | " | Yusuf Dalah ( " " " " )
1394 | " | Farid Abdullah ( " " " " )
1395 | " | Naji Yaqub ( " " " " )
1396 | 5/15/1950 | Isaac Daoud Sofer (Masouda Shemtob Synagogue)
 | " | Saleh Shamash ( " " " )
 | " | Heskel Ezra ( " " " )
I would be most grateful if you would give this matter special attention in view of His Excellency the President's emphasis.
Please accept my respects;
Sincerely,
The Secretary
11 / 1 / 11
For filing / Received

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Committee for the Revocation of Citizenship and Deportation
Baghdad
Presidency of the Jewish Community
Baghdad
Control Number T / 1122 / 50
Date 2 / 11 / 50
Number:
Date: 1 / 11 / 1950
His Excellency the Director of Baghdad Prison, Respected
With reference to the petition of the prisoner Hayim Yusuf dated 19 / 10 / 1950, referred
by your Excellency to the Presidency of the Jewish Community on 24 / 10 / 1950 and referred to us on
25 / 10 / 1950.
Please be so kind as to instruct the specialized official to notify the aforementioned prisoner that preventing
his fiancée, whose citizenship has been revoked, from traveling is not within the jurisdiction of this committee.
With respect to your Excellency.
⟦signature⟧
The President
A copy to: -
Presidency of the Jewish Community - for information
For filing
Revocation