Jews of Shafaram • Historical conference of descendants of Jews of Shafraim to be held on 21/11/19 • By Danny Levy

This year, at the initiative of the mayor of Shafaram, there will be a conference of descendants of Shafaram Jews for generations • The conference will be held on 21/11/2019 at 16:00 p.m.

Daniel Levy, son of a Jewish family, from Shafaram:
The conference will be attended by descendants of the Jewish community that used to live in Shafaram: the Samoni family, Cohen, Zaut, Bunan (El Jali), Azaari, Hassan and Almani and more...
After many searches, we managed to locate about 80 descendants from different families. The Jewish settlement in Shafram existed from the time of the destruction of the Second Temple until the beginning of the 20th century.

If you would like to take part in the conference of the community of Shafaram expatriates - contact Mr. Danny Levy by phone:
050 4495501

The last of the Jews left Shafaram for Haifa, after they ran into financial difficulties, as a result of the many taxes imposed on them by the Ottoman government. In most of their distress, the heads of the community wrote a letter asking for help from Moshe Montefiore:

Over the years, immediately after the expulsion from Spain, other Jewish families joined Shafer

Due to marriage ties, other families from different parts of the world joined the original settlement. From Oran in Algeria, the Bonan and Behbat families, from Tehran in Persia, the Zerubabel Mizrahi family who was an ophthalmologist in the settlement.

In the 18th century, the governor of the Galilee, Dahr al-Omer, brought Jewish families from around the Ottoman Empire to thicken the Jewish settlement in the Galilee in order to strengthen the economy. He settled them in Tiberias and Shafaram.
After the settlement was abandoned, the Jews integrated into life in Haifa. Binyamin Hasan was among the founders of the Bat Galim neighborhood, his house in the neighborhood was declared a building for preservation and Suleiman Levy, was the founder of the Elroi settlement near Kiryat Tivon. In the same year, he founded the company for supplying water to homes in the Herzliya neighborhood.
Suleiman's brother, Matathiu, was in the first group of settlers in Atlit from the foundation of Baron Rothschild.

The awards come to Shafaram

(from personal knowledge from family stories)
At the end of the 19th century, a Jewish doctor lived in Tehran, who, according to the family story, was the court physician of the Persian sheikh, whose name was Elazar. Everyone called him Lazar Hakim in the local language. His son Zerubbabel, who was also a doctor, decided in about 1860 to immigrate to Israel and settle in the Holy Land. He was a wealthy man and was looking to buy an estate in the Land of Israel.

When Zerubbabel arrived in Acre, he looked for a place to live. The Jewish residents of Acre advised him not to live in Acre, because according to the Halacha, it is not part of the Land of Israel. There is a Jewish community in Shafaram and they are offering properties there for sale, they told him. He arrived in Shafaram and purchased a house with a plot of land in order to settle there. It was known there as Zerubbabel Mizrahi.

Zerubbabel befriended Musa Hasan's family and later became his son-in-law. when he married his daughter Adon to a wife. In Shafaram he served as an ophthalmologist, they had 5 children. Jacob, Naim, Leah, Mazal and Victoria. Leah was my grandmother. Jacob settled in Safed and his eldest son Moshe was later the rabbi of Holon. Jacob's second son was Zerubbabel Lelior. He adopted the last name to commemorate the name of Elazar Hakim. Later he was the owner of the "Lavi" insurance company. Later, Zerubbabel Mizrahi moved to Haifa.

After the abandonment of Jewish families - they continued to maintain contact with Shafram

Ursan Yassin, the current mayor of Shafaram, invites you, the descendants of the Jewish community that used to live in Shafaram, to come to the conference,
A rainbow of shades and camaraderie.

Excerpt from the Ariel encyclopedia

If you would like to take part in the conference of the community of Shafaram expatriates - contact Mr. Danny Levy by phone:
050 4495501