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Menahem Saleh Daniel


Menahem Saleh Daniel (1846-1940) was an Iraqi Jewish landowner and philanthropist.

Daniel was Deputy for Baghdad to the first Ottoman Parliament in Istanbul in 1876, and a Senator in the Kingdom of Iraq (1925-1932).

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

His nephew was Sir Sassoon Eskell.


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