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5148
6 October 938
Secret and Urgent
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His Excellency the Minister of Education, the Respected
After greetings and respect
Many Jewish students who graduated from private schools in
Baghdad have approached us complaining that the official intermediate and secondary schools are still postponing
consideration of their admission, even though they have accepted other students without exception.
It is not hidden from Your Excellency that if it is true that Jewish students are being treated with this
special treatment, then this means discrimination between the children of one homeland in rights, and this
is contrary to the policy of justice followed by the honorable government.
Because of our firm belief that Your Excellency does not approve of the occurrence of such injustice, which has caused
the deprivation of a large crowd of students from general culture without cause, we have seen fit to write
this urgent letter to Your Excellency in the firm hope that Your Excellency will take the necessary
measures to remove this injustice and to treat everyone equally.
Awaiting Your Excellency's reply, please accept my sincere respects;
On behalf of
The Head of the Community
Names of rejected students
from the Al-Ta'dil School
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Hezekiah Daoud Sassoon
Youssef Sassoon
Hezekiah Ezra Najash
Anwar Youssef
Ezra Youssef
Ibrahim Sobhi Zubaida
Rudolf Daoud Zalta
Salman Zilkha
Saleh Shahrabani
Daoud Abdullah Twayq
Albert Salman Sourani
Naji Ibrahim Lilo
Ai Qa'za Rahima
Youssef Yaqoub Levi
Yaqoub Shaul
Al-Alice
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Salman Ishaq
Youssef Daoud Sassoon
Yaqoub Shaul Liloh
Naim Eliyahu Laghani
Eliyahu Hadhouri
Nabi Rubin
Shaul Daoud Moallem
Shamash
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Naim Daoud Naim
Yaqoub Yamin Darwish
Naim Zion Shai
Salim Hadhouri Al-Abbas
Naim Nassim Haqir
Salim Youssef Shahin
Eliyahu Salim Moshi
(1) The principal of Al-Rusafa Intermediate School expelled me from the school on the 26th of last month, and the reason he
gave for my expulsion was that a quarrel had occurred outside the school between two students. The principal summoned me to discuss
the reasons for this quarrel that occurred between the aforementioned individuals, considering that I am one of their friends. Since I was ignorant of the reasons and did not show
the principal any reason because I knew nothing about the mentioned dispute, the principal sent me away from the school and asked me to return after
two days. When I arrived at the appointment, he explained to me that there was no longer a place for me in the school and gave me a transfer certificate. I applied to the rest of
the official intermediate schools but was not accepted in any of them. 11/21/1928 Yusuf Nasim, who is from the second grade B
from Al-Rusafa Intermediate School, Baghdad
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(2) The principal, Mr. Muhammad Ali Arjukuba, summoned me on 11/11/1928 and asked me to pay the Futuwwa fee. I asked him
to give me until tomorrow, but he wanted to give me a transfer certificate to sever my connection with the school. So I went immediately and brought the required money despite
borrowing from one of the students. When I gave it to the principal, he refused to receive it and insisted on me leaving the school under the pretext that there was no place for me, and he provided me
with a transfer certificate, but I refused to receive it. 11/21/1928 Salman Daoud from the third grade A
from Al-Rusafa Intermediate School
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(3) The principal, Mr. Muhammad Ali Arjukuba, summoned us to him on 11/11/1928 and informed us that there was no place for us in the school considering
(4) its narrowness, and asked us to return to him on the second day. When we arrived at the appointment, he gave us two transfer certificates in each of our hands, and since that
date until now, we have not found anyone to accept our enrollment in another intermediate school, and we remained without a school.
11/21/1928 Moshe Yusuf, Yusuf Nasim, Ibrahim Nasim
from the second grade B | from the second grade B
Al-Rusafa Intermediate School
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(5) The aforementioned principal summoned me on 11/11/1928 and asked me to produce a medical certificate signed by Dr. Hashim Al-Witri stating that I am free of diseases.
When I came to him on the second day to give me a letter from the school to the mentioned doctor to examine me accordingly, he gave me a transfer certificate instead of the letter
and severed my connection with the school under the pretext of no place being available on 11/21/1928 Salman Nasim Habib, third grade A
Al-Rusafa School
The truth is that the school principal, the added official, Mr. Muhammad Ali Arjukuba
is the beneficiary of the school's food. Since these facts occurred
during the time of his predecessor, we have returned to attach each payment separately
and decide on it according to justice and fairness.
Ismat
11/22/1928
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19 December 938
Secret
His Excellency the Respected Minister of Interior
After greetings and respect
I draw Your Excellency's attention to what the Al-Kifah newspaper continuously publishes with the intent of inciting
hatred against the Israelite community in Iraq, and especially to what it published on page
5 of issue 282 issued on 11 December 938 and page 2 of issue
284 issued on 15 December 938
I enclose herewith a copy of each of the two issues for your review, with the sections
mentioned above marked in red pen
With respect and honor to Your Excellency
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Head of the Community
4978
15 June 938
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His Excellency the Minister of Education, the Respected
After greetings and respect,
The severe financial distress that has afflicted the fund of the Israeli Lay Council
at the present time as a result of the decline in meat tax revenues has made
continuing to perform the public services that the Lay Council has taken upon
itself impossible. As a result of this financial confusion, the salaries of the community's employees
including school teachers have been delayed for several months, which led to the teachers' strike
until the Council was able to persuade them to resume teaching in the hope that it would seek to manage
the situation and balance the finances.
At the time when the Council is discussing the ways that will lead it to this goal,
it finds that its efforts will fail as long as the deficit suffered by the community at the present
time reaches 12,000 Dinars, and as long as balancing income and expenditures has become
impossible in the coming years as well. Since it has not limited the public services it performs
now, it is very difficult to continue performing the cultural and health services that
it currently practices.
Our schools at the present time number 11 schools containing 8,500 male and female students,
and the financial feeding of these institutions, which include such a number of students, has become beyond
the Council's capability. Therefore, we hope that Your Excellency will instruct the annexation of two of our
primary schools that apply the official primary curriculum to the official education cadre
under the same conditions agreed upon regarding the official Ras al-Qarya and Al-Samawal schools. By this,
you will have enabled the Council to persevere in spreading general knowledge in the country.
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Head of the Community
5257
25 January 939
To
His Excellency the Respected Minister of Education
After greetings and respect
We had requested in our letter to your esteemed ministry numbered 4979 and dated June 20,
938, to take possible measures to annex two of our primary schools that apply the
official education curriculum to the education staff under the same conditions agreed upon regarding the Ras al-Qarya
and Al-Samawal schools. This is by way of assisting the Communal Council in performing the public services
it provides to the country, especially in the state of severe financial distress it is going through at
the present time.
However, the esteemed Education Council apologized for not granting this request at the time because
that year was a year of stagnation and lack of expansion, as stated in your reply to our letter No. 12852
dated July 10, 1938.
I regret to inform Your Excellency that the Community Council has been forced - under the pressure of the financial
distress it suffers - to close one of our schools, which is the Al-Karam school, and dismiss
its teachers and students. I can assure Your Excellency that if the situation continues as it is
now, we will inevitably be forced to close another school or more and deprive its students of education.
Accordingly, and on the occasion of your esteemed ministry's preoccupation with preparing the education budget for the coming year,
we take this opportunity to repeat our request, hoping Your Excellency will instruct to take what is necessary to annex
one of our primary schools that apply the education curriculum to the official staff and make it
an official school like the Ras al-Qarya or Al-Samawal school, as well as considering the possibility of opening an official school
in the neighborhoods inhabited by Israelite citizens under these same conditions. By doing so,
Your Excellency will have helped us assist the education authorities in spreading education in the country.
Please accept our respect;
On behalf of
The Head of the Community
Iraq
Ministry of Education
Research and Reform Committee
Number: 2898
Date: 30 Dhu al-Qi'dah 356
Subject: 1 February 38
Subject: School Grants
To the Presidency of the Jewish Community in Baghdad
With reference to your letter No. 4718 dated January 17, 038
Since the annual grant allocated to private schools has already been distributed, it is unfortunately not possible
to consider the request mentioned in your above-referenced letter; however, we have taken the necessary steps to present
your request to the Education Council at its next meeting, and we suggest that you submit a new request to us
at the beginning of the next fiscal year.
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For the Director General of Education
Presidency of the Jewish Community
Baghdad
Number 7765
Date 7/2/938
A. Q.
4942
31 May ⟦9⟧38
Directorate of General Education
Your letter No. 2898 dated 2 February 938
There is no doubt that your directorate has been informed of the great financial distress that
has overtaken the community fund as a result of the loss resulting from the decline in the revenues of
the meat tax that the community collects from its members, a great decline such that
the amount of the deficit expected to occur by the end of next September is about 12,000 Dinars.
For this reason, the salaries of employees, including the teachers of the Israeli schools, have been delayed
for several months, which led to the occurrence of the strike that your directorate was informed of
at the time.
Therefore, we found it necessary to refer to your letter No. 2898 dated 2
February 938, in which you promised us to present our request to increase the annual grants allocated
to our schools to the Education Council. Here, we hope that this request will be considered with the attention
it deserves, especially in view of the difficult circumstances through which the finances of the Lay Council are passing.
By doing so, the esteemed Ministry of Education will have facilitated our performance of the public duties
that we have taken upon ourselves, namely cooperation with the education authorities in spreading
general culture in the country;
On behalf of
The Head of the Community
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5258
25 January 939
His Excellency the Director General of Education, the Respected
We wish to draw your Excellency's attention to the promise made in your letter No. 2898 dated
2 February 938 to take the necessary steps to present our request to increase the annual grant for our private schools
to the Council of Education at its next meeting, and since it was decided that we submit a new request upon the arrival of
the fiscal year
And on the occasion of the esteemed Ministry of Education being busy at the present time with organizing the budget for the
coming year, we have come to remind you of this promise, hoping that you will consider increasing the small annual grants
paid to our schools, an increase proportional to the public services these schools perform
in the field of upbringing and education. It is appropriate to mention to your Excellency here that the Community Council
has been forced to close Al-Karam School due to the severe financial distress gripping the fund of
the community. Therefore, the expected financial assistance will have the best impact on the running of
the affairs of our schools ⟦illegible⟧
on behalf of
The Head of the Community
Iraq
Ministry of Education
"Private Office"
Please refer to the full number:
Number: 12854
Date: 13 Jumada al-Ula 1357
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To the Respected Head of the Jewish Community
Reference to your letter numbered 4979 and dated 6/20/1938
The Council of Education considered the request contained in your aforementioned letter in its session
held on 7/7/1938, and since this year is a year of suspension and lack of expansion in
opening schools for many reasons, including the scarcity of teachers, it is not possible - unfortunately -
to grant your request at the present time.
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Minister of Education
A copy of it to:-
Directorate of General Education
and Teaching and General Education
M. S.
Presidency of the Jewish Community
Baghdad
Private Number 2511
Date 10 / 7 / 38
Secretary
Administration of the Israelite Community * Baghdad
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Bullet points regarding the incident of the secret letters
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1- The first letter arrived by mail on 5/10/928, dated 4/10/928, unsigned
without a signature
2- Its content is that its unknown writer claims to be the head of the Arrow and Hidden Power Society
and requests his Excellency to hand over at 7 o'clock on Tuesday night to the one who
shows him this sign next to the statue of Abd al-Muhsin al-Saadoun on the river, and that
on Tuesday afternoon, the sum of one hundred and ten dinars, and he threatened his Excellency
with death in case of non-compliance with this request
3) The mentioned letter was deposited with the Baghdad Police Directorate on the same day
4) On Tuesday afternoon, his Excellency received a phone call from a person
who refused to give his name, confirming the letter and threatening his Excellency if he did not bring
the amount on time. His Excellency informed the Police Director of the news after speaking
with the telephone exchange officer and the supervisor, but they were unable to identify the planned telephone number
The telephone supervisor informed us after that the tone of the telephone bell had changed
5) On Thursday, the President received a second unsigned letter that arrived by mail
It consists of two papers, each written in a different handwriting, mentioned in this letter
the same unknown writer of his first letter and in his telephone fold, claiming that he is the one assigned
Secretary
Administration of the Israelite Community * Baghdad
The same class of which he is the head, it was formed of ⟦110⟧ people and it is ready
to throw a bomb into the President's house if he refuses to bring the required amount
to the same place on the days of Friday evening. The letter was neglected
at the time, and the police
6) And in the evening, he informs the association. In the afternoon, His Excellency received a phone call from a person claiming to be
Lieutenant Abdul Wahab, in which he also confirms the message and threatens to throw
the aforementioned bomb if the amount is not delivered at the required time. We have
requested the telephone monitoring to inform us of the calling number, and we were told that
the speaker was using the telephone set of Cinema Al-Zawra. His Excellency immediately
informed the duty officer, Mr. Zahim, ⟦in the capacity of⟧ the Police Director, of that
Association for the Defense of Palestine in Iraq
The High Committee in Baghdad
Telegraphic Address: Palestine - Baghdad
Telephone Number 2058 Extension
Number 75
Baghdad 5 Dhu al-Hijjah 1357
26 January 1939
His Eminence, the Head of the Jewish Community in Iraq, Respected
Greetings and respect. Furthermore, the Arab nation, and especially the Iraqi people, have been and still are looking at the
honorable Jewish community with a look of love and respect, given that this community has lived since ancient times in the
Arab environment a life of serenity and prosperity with the rest of its fellow citizens, and because it has stood in all eras with the Arab nation despite
the recent events that took place in Palestine, which were caused by foreign Zionists who must be distinguished
from our Arab Jewish brothers.
The Arabs still consider the national Jews to be their brothers in prosperity and adversity, and that it is not within the power of
Zionism to alienate them, and based on this hope, they see fit to direct the attention of these brothers to the necessity of
brotherhood and participation in everything that would strengthen the bonds of their brotherhood and work to achieve their desired unity
from which all Arabs benefit, including the honorable Arab Jews.
It is not surprising, in this case, that our Jewish brothers in Iraq demonstrate in the cause of Arab Palestine,
which is a just cause, which will have the best impact on the conference in London, the results of which will be bringing peace
to Arab Palestine forever.
Likewise, our committee sees fit to remind Your Eminence that it has formed committees to collect aid for the victims of Palestine after
their numbers increased beyond the norm, and it hopes that you will contribute to these national and humanitarian charities as Iraqis, as you contributed
previously, considering you our brothers, united with us by the bond of the homeland and Arabism, and the bond of joys and pains.
Please accept the highest respects.
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Secretary
Association for the Defense of Palestine in Iraq
The High Committee
Baghdad: 1356
1937
M / Kh
Presidency of the Jewish Community
in Baghdad
Telephone Number 531
Number: 5693
Date: September 27, 1939
Subject.
To His Excellency the Honorable Prime Minister
Baghdad
After greetings and respect - following our letter No. 5692 dated September 27, 1939
It has come to my attention that the number of Jews who failed the exam for the first reserve officers' course
reached 13 out of 14, while the success rate of the others was not less than 94 percent.
Those who participated in this course were graduates of higher schools and are considered among
the best youth of the community; among them are lawyers, engineers, employees, and others who are no less
successful in their practical lives than their other brothers. It was hoped that their success rate would be
much higher than that.
Success in an exam, although sometimes dependent on chance, this result
leads us to believe that it is not a matter of chance, but rather confirms the suspicion that the esteemed
Ministry of Defense does not want there to be military officers from among the Jews, and therefore those of them who apply
to the Military College have not succeeded in entering it until now. The three students who were
studying there two years ago were expelled, and the small number of Jewish officers who were in
the service of the army have had their services terminated.
But the point of reflection in this incident is that success in the reserve officers' course does not lead these
Jews to permanent employment in the army, as they are holders of higher degrees
who have their own professions from which they earn their living, and their only desire was to be permitted to hold the military rank
they deserve to lead individuals and carry arms to serve their country when duty calls for it.
Depriving them of this right must affect their morale as well as the morale of the Jewish individuals
who have joined and will join the military service when needed when they learn of this result.
We hope that Your Excellency will address this issue with the fairness and wisdom you possess in order to instill
hope in the sons of your homeland who want nothing but to serve their dear country with their souls.
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Head of the Community
The head of the community, Ezra Menachem Daniel, Ibrahim Hayyim Moallem Isaac, and Ibrahim
Nahum met with His Excellency the Prime Minister, who in turn requested the presence of His Excellency the Minister of Education, and the discussion took place in their presence
regarding the injustice felt by the Israelite community as a result of the education policy towards them.
And these are the results obtained:
1 - The Minister confirmed that he had no knowledge of the expulsion of the fifty Israelite students from the intermediate school
in Adhamiya on the pretext of transferring it to the College of Religious Sciences and the impermissibility of Israelites attending it,
and that he would look into the matter of keeping the mentioned students in the mentioned college or transferring them to
other schools suitable for them. He confirms that none of them will remain outside of school, and he also wishes
to know the names of the students who were refused admission to the make-up exam on the pretext that they were transferred from
the Adhamiya school and were not assigned to another school, in order to carry out the necessary follow-ups. He also
confirmed that limiting the number of students to forty only included the primary
classes for students who are newly admitted at the beginning of the school year and does not include the remaining
classes whose student numbers exceed forty and who are currently present in the classes,
and that all schools will provide all possible facilities for the admission of Israelite students and that
he wishes for us to inform him if unreasonable difficulties are found in this regard.
2 - The Minister stated that the conversion of the two primary schools (Ras al-Qarya and Al-Samawal) from primary
to elementary (and not to a kindergarten as we said) is based on a general plan adopted by the Ministry in view of
the unsuitability of most rented houses for schools to what modern schools require in terms of
their suitability for public health requirements such as space, ventilation, and so on. And that in the capital
alone, they made 36 elementary schools and transferred the students of the fifth and sixth grades to other
schools more suitable than the rented houses.
As for our observations regarding the deprivation of neighborhoods inhabited by Israelites from the facilities that
result from the presence of official schools in their midst, as is the case in other neighborhoods, they were not taken
into account. When we pointed out that the Al-Tahira Primary School was not subject to this
rule, the Minister replied that he had no knowledge of that and would investigate it.
3 - We were unable to obtain the opening of a fourth secondary evening class, and when we pointed out what the administration of
Al-Tafayudh School announced regarding the opening of a fourth secondary evening class, the Minister stated that this was a mistake and did not allow
the opening of the mentioned class.
4 - The Futuwwa and Scouts system has not yet been applied in any of the private schools, and when
it is applied, it will be applied to all of them equally.
5 - The Education Law will take into account the observations submitted about it when discussing it in
the Council Committee, and that among the most important observations made by the respected Deputy Ibrahim Hayyim regarding the necessity of
maintaining the right to collect fees from students in private schools, its correctness may be recognized, and he will suggest
amending the specific article in the Council Committee for the desired purpose.
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These discussions lasted about an hour and a half, and what His Excellency the Prime Minister and the Minister of
Education showed in terms of sympathy and care in not differentiating between elements warrants all thanks.
6 - We pointed out to His Excellency the Prime Minister regarding the head of the community's appeal to the Minister of Defense about the failure of
thirteen students out of a total of fourteen Israeli students who completed the officers' course.
Ibrahim Nahum also mentioned to His Excellency the Prime Minister his discussion with him two years ago about encouraging
Jewish students to enter the officers' school, so His Excellency showed us his increased interest in
the matter and his distress over its occurrence, and that he, along with the Minister of Defense, is interested in conducting the necessary investigations
and removing the injustice from the victims.
Hadiya
Al-Kuraish
3/10/1939 The head of the community with His Excellency the Minister of Education on the morning of Thursday, October 5, 939
And after the discussion, the following notes were handed to him: -
1) That the Al-Tafayyud School is established with the materials that the Secretary of the Lay Council was assigned to investigate based on
the necessity that appeared to it after receiving the answers from His Excellency the Minister of Education
2) That the students of my two schools, the meeting held at the Diwan of the Prime Minister's Office / 3 of it, for the purpose of reviewing His Excellency
the Minister of Education if the investigation reveals what necessitates a review.
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1 - A list of the names of the children of those rejected for completion in Al-Adhamiya, Ras al-Qarya school to a school
2 - " " students who were given a transfer certificate and dismissed from their schools as a result of an increase
in the number designated for students in the classes.
3 - Investigation into the refusal of one of the intermediate school principals to accept Jewish female students in a definitive manner
4 - A list of students who were dismissed with or without a transfer certificate from the Ras al-Qarya and Al-Samawal schools
and who have not been accepted into other schools until now
5 - It shall be investigated whether the advertisement published by the Al-Tafayyud School regarding the opening of a fourth secondary evening class
was correct and whether this class was opened.
6 - It shall be investigated if the Futuwwa system was applied in any private school.
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His Eminence the Head of the Community met His Excellency the Minister of Education on the morning of Thursday, October 5, 1939
And after the discussion, he handed him the following observations: -
1) That the Al-Tafayyudh Private School has commenced evening classes in four classes, three of which are
intermediate and one fourth-year secondary class
2) That the students of Al-Tafayyudh Private School were included last year in the Futuwwa system and their
training was conducted by instructors from the official schools
3) Difficulties are still ⟦standing⟧ in the face of students who wish to enroll in the
official intermediate and secondary schools
4) After transferring the students of the fourth, fifth, and sixth grades from Ras al-Qarya school to the
Al-Rusafa school, a number of students from the first primary third grade were dismissed from Ras al-Qarya school on the grounds that
their ages are unsuitable
His Excellency replied with the following: -
1) That he was not aware of the existence of evening classes at Al-Tafayyudh school and he promised to study the case during
the following days and issue orders either to withdraw the license from the aforementioned school or to grant the required
license to the Shamash school
2) He also promised to study the case of applying the Futuwwa system to private schools and to issue orders either
to apply this system to all private schools or not to apply it to any of them
3) His Excellency also promised to provide facilities for the admission of Jewish students into intermediate
and secondary schools
4) He requested His Eminence to contact the Director of Education for the Baghdad region to reach an understanding regarding the schools of
Ras al-Qarya and Al-Samawal
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His Eminence the Head of the Community, Mr. Moise Ita, and the secretaries of the community administration met with the Director of Education for the
Baghdad region on Sunday morning, October 8, and the following points were discussed:
1 - Regarding the Israeli students dismissed from Al-Adhamiya Intermediate School
2 - Ras al-Qarya and Al-Samawal schools
3 - The issue of admitting students to intermediate schools
The following is a summary of the answers:
1) All Israeli students at Al-Adhamiya Intermediate School have been accepted into various
official intermediate schools in Baghdad.
2) The Ministry of Education has transferred the fourth, fifth, and sixth grades from Ras al-Qarya School to
Al-Rusafa School, and transferred the first, second, and third grades from Al-Rusafa School to Ras al-Qarya
School. A similar exchange took place between Al-Samawal and Al-Rashid schools, and these schools became
as follows:
Ras al-Qarya Primary School (formerly Al-Rusafa)
Ras al-Qarya Children's School (formerly Ras al-Qarya)
Al-Rashid Primary School (formerly Al-Rashid)
Al-Rashid Children's School (formerly Al-Samawal)
The purpose of this was as follows:
1) The Education plan is to abolish official sectarian schools and mix students of different
religions with one another to achieve harmony among them, because their isolation from each other is not in
the public interest.
2) Due to the lack of male teachers on one hand, and the proven success of female teachers in teaching children on the
other, Education has followed a plan to divide primary schools into mixed children's schools
for boys and girls taught by female teachers, and primary schools for boys only containing
the fourth, fifth, and sixth grades taught by male teachers. When
Mr. Moise Ita replied to him that the purpose of opening these two schools at the time was to (1) attract
the largest possible portion of Israeli students to study in government schools, (2) to ensure
their religious instruction, (3) to allow for closing on Saturdays and during Israeli religious holidays,
he answered the first point by saying that this is still ensured and that these schools and others will accept
any Israeli students who apply. As for religious lessons, if there is a desire on the part of
the community, he is ready to discuss with the Minister the matter of making arrangements to give religious lessons to the students
of the four schools from among the Israelis, by a religion teacher appointed by the community for that purpose.
As for holidays, the students of the aforementioned schools will have holidays on the official holidays
for Israelis.
When His Eminence the Head of the Community brought to his attention that the Ministry of Education did not apply this plan to
Al-Tahira School, he replied that the building of this school is part of the church and that its case is still under study.
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As for the rents of the Ras al-Qarya and Al-Samawal schools that the community used to pay, it was agreed that there
is no longer a reason to continue paying them, and he promised to study the issue of the Al-Samawal school furniture belonging
to the community and confirmed that the regional directorate will ensure that no student from these two schools remains without a school.
3 ) As for the admission of students to middle schools, he apologized due to the narrowness and scarcity of schools relative
to the graduates, as nearly four thousand male and female students of various religions still remain
without schools
Directorate
of Education
Summarized in this paper is the story of the history book completed by His Excellency, the story of Al-Salihiya at the Teachers' Institute.
Last year, we were studying this curriculum in the eighth grade, and the school administration asked us
to fill out a special form about the history curriculum to express our opinion on it.
And we responded to this form.
The schools assigned specific names for the prescribed history books.
: Among them is the history book by Rafiq.
So I asked the director of our district school to assign this book to us so that (1)
we could change what concerns us in it, so the director assigned names to us.
And we began sending section after section of the curriculum to the printing press to arrange its pages in the book (2).
After a section of Riyadh al-Salihin from this history, and during the arrangement, we hit a section
of names that were called in Riyadh al-Salihin, rearranged anew, if only we could wrap it as a rank, and we collected a section
: rank as
(for his saying: we have played) the rest of the books do not accept any part of it
(for his saying: we have conceded) indeed we had conceded a part of it
(for his saying: he will witness) the rest of the books will not witness any part of it
(for his saying: you saw us) indeed we had seen any part of it
: a rank that was not there before, so he turned to not paying
The names of these printed books were the story of the righteous in drawing, the names of the Ghariya in our language, our pen that (2)
Subscription value of old ⟦Mishya⟧
(Old Mishya 1)
With the value ⟦which⟧ old Mishya
(Old ⟦capital⟧)
: And woe to him, so-and-so from before so-and-so does not occur
At its cost of four hundred, both wheat, the value of the sa' is five riyals, names ⟦19⟧ for its purpose, payment to the workers of the castle of N (1)
We call Mia, and among them who and asked so-and-so Ka, and among them by Fka Tka four shares, so who is he and among them and Riyalun A
Qasal about A
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His Excellency, the Most Magnificent Minister of Education.
Presented to your High Excellency.
We, the undersigned, completed our secondary education last year and submitted
a request to the esteemed Ministry of Education to join the teaching profession after completing all the
required conditions. After a long follow-up, we did not obtain a result; some of our requests were returned this year,
but the requests of most of us were rejected, and the other part has not received a result until now.
Therefore, we have come as supplicants to Your Excellency to look into our case, and our hope is firm in Your Excellency
that we will receive your assistance, and we have no hope but you. This is for your command, sir.
7 / 10 / 1949
Name | Signature
1 Salman Shaul Samouha | Salman Shaul
2 Sabih Salman Al-Sayegh | Sabih Al-Sayegh
3 Rahmin Hayim Rahwan | Rahmin Hayim
4 Naeem Eliyahu Jouri | Naeem Eliyahu
5 Ibrahim Shaul Levy | Ibrahim Shaul
6 Yaqub Abboud Menashe | Yaqub Abboud | I submitted a request this year
7 Yaqub Hazqeel Yaqub | Yaqub Hazqeel
8 Saleh Hasqeel Al-Hallat | Saleh Hasqeel
9 Ibrahim Munshi Mansour | Ibrahim Munshi | I submitted a request this year
10 Naji Khadhouri | Naji Khadhouri | " " " "
10/9/1939
We have understood from Mr. Ezra Menachem Daniel that he learned that the Ministry of Education has taken
a decision to open an official primary school in every neighborhood of the capital's neighborhoods, and for this
reason, the Baghdad education map will be studied to complete a number of schools in the neighborhoods that are vacant
of them
⟦signature⟧
The Secretary
Summary of the case of the accusation directed against Naji Yusuf Azira for the incident
Monday evening 9/10/1939
While the aforementioned was sitting in the Bilqis Cafe in Bab al-Sharqi with Daoud Nassim
Benjamin, Shalom Haroun Barshan, Naeem Ezra Shamaia, Yusuf Maslawi, and Elias Haskil Bayard
On Monday evening 9/10/1939 around eight o'clock in the evening, and the conversation between them was
about American trade, then it became 8:30 and news was broadcast from the Iraqi radio
so they fell silent and everyone fell silent. In the meantime, Naji, the aforementioned, saw a person stand up who was known
later to be named Shakir Jassim (a middle school principal) and he was sitting in the cafe
also with two others, one of whom was known to be the lawyer Abdul Majeed al-Hamid and another he did not know
and he went to a person ⟦who appeared to be an assistant director of police⟧ who was sitting on another side of
the cafe and spoke with him and pointed his hand at the group sitting and returned. After that, a
police commissioner arrived and requested him to the station where he understood that he was accused by the three informants
that when the announcer uttered the word "Chief of the Royal Court," the accused said this phrase: "Chief
of the Royal Court, my foot." And upon his interrogation he said: that he did not speak at all and did not utter this
phrase, just as he does not know the mentioned persons, and he was detained Tuesday night then released on bail
of one hundred dinars.
It appeared that he was Hamid
Director of Police
Note: It was seen (1) to meet His Excellency the Minister of Justice by His Eminence the Head of the Community
to not allow room for the fabrication of such cases
(2) then to meet His Excellency Mr. Rashid Ali al-Gaylani by the gentlemen
Yehuda Zalouf and Ezra Menachem with a request to intervene and close the case
13/10/1939
The Secretary
The Accused: Heskel bin Daoud - a ticket seller in the Railway Department
The Informant: Al-Haj Alwan bin Falih - an employee in the Port Fire Truck
The Trial: On the day of 10/22/1939
Summary of the Charge:
That he was sitting in the Grands Cafe in Ma'qil (Basra), the accused and the informant with the persons
Ibrahim Abdul Latif - Sayyid Najm Radi - Nader Khan - and the son of the cafe owner, and that
when the aforementioned Ibrahim Abdul Latif read a news item in Al-Istiqlal newspaper stating that His Excellency
the Prime Minister is determined to send fifty thousand soldiers to Palestine if things turn out
consistent with the goals of the Arabs, and that the accused uttered before the aforementioned the following: From where does your government get
fifty thousand soldiers? All it has is five thousand soldiers distributed among the tribes in
internal revolutions, and if there were any good in them, one would not kill the other