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Iraq's last Jewish doctor, who treated the poor for free, dies in Baghdad


Iraqi Jewish doctor Thafer Eliyahu. (Courtesy)
The last Jewish doctor in Iraq and one of the few remaining Jews in its capital, Baghdad, has died at the age of 61, reports said Tuesday.
Dr. Thafer Eliyahu, an orthopedic doctor at Wasiti Hospital, has been nicknamed “the doctor of the poor” since he treated those who couldn’t afford the costs for free, according to Israel’s Kan public broadcaster and Washington Post Iraq correspondent Mustafa Salim.
During the Gulf War of 2003, he continued to see sick and injured patients even as bombings continued overhead, Kan reported.
Kan said Eliyahu died on Monday of a heart attack, citing a journalist in Baghdad. However, Salim wrote on Twitter that the cause of death was a sudden stroke. ....

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