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Jews in Egypt (דר' משה זקס) Only a More than a third of the Jews of 1948 were born in Egypt from more than 2 generations. of the Egyptian Jews of 1948 were from North African parents, the rest in their way to Palestine remained in Egypt. Most of them left their french citizenship (into (D) There were some other small schools of yeshivas (like the Ran Ventura yeshiva) where students of a non-jewish secondary schools could learn, Talmud, Mishnah. In 1945 this yeshiva was transformed to an secondary jewish religious school. The hospitals in Cairo & Alexandria were famous. Egyptian aristocracy were hospitalized abroad or. An ophthalmic center built in the 30's by the generous Abraham Adda Bey and given to the Egyptian government. An orphanage in Alexandria & another in Cairo. Child & mother centers in Cairo & Alexandria. Old Peoples homes in both cities (non paying). Many Sports Clubs existed in Cairo and Alexandria. The famous basket teams of Cairo Hacoah and Maccabi always met with the Alexandria Maccabi for the final match for the Egyptian cup. Even the team could not compete with the jewish team, despite the long training they received. Important events took place in the Synagogues. Enlisting of soldiers in the two world wars took place in the Synagogue of Eliashu Honabi in Alexandria. Rabbi Moshe Ventura (Dr from the Sorbone), Lecturer of Philosophy at the ③ authorities expelled 11277 jews from Palestine and Syria. These refugees arrived in Alexandria, barefooted, almost naked. Jews in the city organized a committee for the assistance of the Russian jews of Palestine. In the refugees camps schools were established according to the programme of the Hebrew schools in Palestine. In the camp a high school was erected and the Alexandria Jewish Council appointed Prof Dr Bognashow as headmaster of 320 student school. The Egyptian jews objected when in 1915 the Russian Consulate tried to enlist the Palestinian jews, and asked for the intervention of the British authorities. The above committee for the assistance of the jews of Palestine organized a regiment of volunteers under a British command to fight in the Palestinian Front. Moussa Cattaui Pacha presented to General Maxwell a delegation composed of Dr Felder, Jabotinsky, Leventine and Margolit. General Maxwell suggested to compose the Male regiment under the command of Colonel Petterson. The Regiment was composed of 350 Palestinian Jews and 150 of local Alexandrian Jews. When Weizman visited Alexandria a committee for Palestine collected more than 1000 Egyptian pounds and gave it to him. In 1920, 10000 eg. Pounds were donated to the Russian jews victims of the war (a manager of a Bank earned 10 eg Pounds a month). After that year * also a big sum was collected in Cairo and Alexandria for the Keren Hayessed immigration scheme, and an information center was established in Alexandria to help those who were interested to emigrate to Palestine. Almost immigrants to Palestine at that time had visas only to Alexandria, the Jewish institution in this town provided documents and papers and helped between 1920 & 1927 to send 11000 them to reach Palestine. This besides the material & financial help. From 1924 the Keren Kayemet became an important institution in Alexandria with many branches in the different quarters. In 1925 an association for the Research on the Jewish History was found in Cairo (1) In 1933, the Alexandrian jewry donated 15000 eg. Pounds for the purchase of a Council in Israel for the jews who fled from the Nazis, this place is known today as ( (D) Many jewish Papers were published in Egypt. In 1880 an arabic organ was founded "ACHabalea" (the [?] ) in Alexandria In 1903 a hebrew paper in Cairo "Motsrayim" 1917 (French) La Revue Sioniste 1908-1941 (French) L'