Edmond Safra
Edmond Safra · Economics & Business
Founded Republic National Bank of New York; chartered the planes that carried 4,500 Syrian Jews to safety in 1992 and rebuilt synagogues on four continents
6 August 1932, Beirut, Lebanon
Lebanon · Brazil · Switzerland · United States
Edmond Safra is recognized among Jewish contributors to Economics & Business — Founded Republic National Bank of New York; chartered the planes that carried 4,500 Syrian Jews to safety in 1992 and rebuilt synagogues on four continents
Edmond Safra was born in Beirut in 1932 to a Sephardi Jewish family from Aleppo. He founded the Trade Development Bank in Geneva and Republic National Bank of New York, and became one of the leading private bankers of the century. When Syria lifted its travel ban on Jews in 1992 he paid to fly 4,500 Syrian Jews out and to settle them in Brooklyn. He restored or built synagogues from Amsterdam and Istanbul to Manila and Kinshasa, saved the oldest synagogue in France from destruction, and built the first synagogue in Madrid in five hundred years.
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Founded Republic National Bank of New York; chartered the planes that carried 4,500 Syrian Jews to safety in 1992 and rebuilt synagogues on four continents
Source: Wikipedia — Edmond Safra
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