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    Menahem Saleh Daniel

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    Menahem Saleh Daniel
    مناحيم صالح دانيال
    Senator
    In office
    1925–1929
    ConstituencyBaghdad
    Member of the Chamber of Deputies of the Ottoman Empire
    In office
    1877–1880
    ConstituencyBaghdad
    Personal details
    Born(1846-03-01)1 March 1846
    Baghdad, Ottoman Empire (now Iraq)
    Died3 November 1940(1940-11-03) (aged 94)
    Baghdad, Iraq
    Resting placeEzekiel's Tomb, Baghdad
    ProfessionBusinessman, landowner, politician

    Menahem Saleh Daniel (Arabic: مناحيم صالح دانيال; 1 March 1846 – 3 November 1940) was an Iraqi businessman, landowner, philanthropist and politician. He served as a member of the Senate of Iraq and deputy of the Ottoman Chamber of Deputies representing Baghdad.

    Biography

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    Menahem Saleh Daniel was born on 1 March 1846 in Baghdad, to Iraqi Jewish parents. He studied in the schools of Baghdad before moving to Europe to study science. He was elected on behalf of Baghdad as a representative in the Ottoman Chamber of Deputies in 1877. He became famous in commercial and economic circles and was known for his commercial relations with the country's notables. Daniel was appointed as a member of the first board of directors of the Baghdad Brigade, which was founded by the governor, Medhat Pasha. After the establishment of the monarchy in Iraq, he became a member of the Senate of Iraq in 1925, representing the Mosaic Jewish community in Iraq.[1][2][3] His son Ezra Saleh Daniel (1874-1952) succeeded him on the Senate.[4]

    His father Saleh Daniel, was famous for his charitable projects and had a palace located in Al-Sinak area. Menahem Daniel was known as "Man with the White Hand" as he founded and built the first orphanage for Muslim orphans and spent on it from his own money to help Muslim orphans and those from different sects.[5]

    Philanthropy

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    Daniel made substantial donations to both Jewish and Muslim charities, and built a Muslim orphanage in 1928, and a Jewish primary school in 1910.

    Personal life

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    His nephew was Sassoon Eskell.

    References

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    1. ^ البغداديون أخبارهم ومجالسهم - تأليف إبراهيم عبد الغني الدروبي - مطبعة الرابطة - بغداد 1958م - مجلس مناحيم دانيال - صفحة 209.
    2. ^ Basri, Meer. "Prominent Iraqi Jews of recent times". dangoor. Retrieved 23 November 2015.
    3. ^ Greene, Annie. "What Do You Know? Iraq's Jewish History". Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies. Retrieved 28 April 2019.
    4. ^ T. Morad; D. Shasha (2008). Iraq's Last Jews: Stories of Daily Life, Upheaval, and Escape from Modern Babylon. Palgrave Macmillan US. p. 186. ISBN 978-0-230-61623-3.
    5. ^ "Wayback Machine". 2016-09-19. Archived from the original on 19 September 2016. Retrieved 2022-06-06.
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