Ebrahim Daoud Nonoo ( ar, إبراهيم داوود نونو, he, אברהם דוד נונו, also known as Abraham David Nonoo, born: 1960 ) is a
Bahrain
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i businessman. He sat in the appointed upper house of the Bahraini Parliament's
Shura Council
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between 2001 and 2006,
the first and only
Jewish
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member of the council. He is the current
CEO
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of the Basma Company and president of the
Association of Gulf Jewish Communities (AGJC)
[
The Nonoo family is originally from ]Basra
Basra ( ar, ٱلْبَصْرَة, al-Baṣrah) is an Iraqi city located on the Shatt al-Arab. It had an estimated population of 1.4 million in 2018. Basra is also Iraq's main port, although it does not have deep water access, which is hand ...
, Iraq
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having moved to Bahrain over a century ago along with hundreds of Jews from Iraq who sought economic opportunities there, but continued to speak the Basrawi dialect. In 2006, Nonoo financed repairs to the country's only synagogue
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.
See also
* Nancy Khedouri
Nancy Dinah Elly Khedouri ( ar, نانسي دينا إيلي خضوري; he, נאנסי ח'דורי; born 1975) is a Bahraini politician, businesswoman and writer. She has been a National Assembly of Bahrain member since 2010. Biography
The Kh ...
* Houda Nonoo
Houda Ezra Ebrahim Nonoo ( ar, هدى عزرا نونو; born 7 September 1964) served as the Bahraini Ambassador to the United States from 2008 to 2013. She was appointed to the position by decree of Foreign Affairs Minister Khaled Ben Ahmad Al ...
References
External links
The Basma Company
Living people
Bahraini Jews
Jewish Bahraini politicians
Members of the Council of Representatives (Bahrain)
Bahraini businesspeople
Bahraini people of Iraqi-Jewish descent
1960 births
Sephardi politicians
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