Many Jews chose to leave Iraq after the Farhud in 1941
Over 12,000 people have lit a virtual candle to remember the victims of the Farhud, an anti-Jewish pogrom in Iraq, on its 80th anniversary.
Nearly 200 people were killed and many hundreds injured during violent rioting and looting in Baghdad in 1941, just as Britain defeated a pro-Nazi government there in a campaign of the Second World War.
Synagogues and Jewish businesses were looted and Torah scrolls burned over two days before order could be restored.
The events contributed to the wholescale departure of Iraq’s entire Jewish population within a decade, uprooting one of the oldest communities in the world.
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British Jewish family gives largest ever gift to the world’s oldest think tank
British Jewish family gives largest ever gift to the world’s oldest think tank
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(February 24, 2021, JNS Wire)
The Dangoor Family has pledged £2 million from The Exilarch’s Foundation, the family’s charitable foundation, to the Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies (RUSI), whose patron is Queen Elizabeth II and was founded in 1831 – making it the oldest defense and security think tank in the world.
RUSI promotes the study and discussion of developments in military doctrine, defense management and defense procurement. In recent years RUSI has broadened its remit to include all issues of defense and security, including financial and organised crime, terrorism and the ideologies which foster it and the challenges from other man-made or man-assisted threats and from natural disasters.