Salomon Benaioun
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Salomon Benaïoun ( ''Sulaymān bin Ḥayyūn'', ''Solomon Ben Hayun''; 1867-1921) was a
Moroccan Jewish Moroccan Jews ( ar, اليهود المغاربة, al-Yahūd al-Maghāriba he, יהודים מרוקאים, Yehudim Maroka'im) are Jews who live in or are from Morocco. Moroccan Jews constitute an ancient community dating to Roman times. Jews b ...
printer and journalist born in
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, whose family originally hailed from Tetouan. He moved to Tangier at the invitation of Haïm Benchimol (1834–1915), an important businessman and collaborator with the French. He studied printing in Paris. He invested in modern printing equipment, which he sent to Tangier where he established the French Printing House on Qadi Street. He also had a photography studio. He started the newspapers ''Kol Israel'' (1891), '' Mébasser Tov'' (1894-1895), and ''Moghrabi'' (1904), though these periodicals were short-lived. Benaïoun also founded (1915-1922), which covered Jewish interests in Morocco in two different editions: one in Judeo-Arabic and one in French. He also owned Maṭbaʻat Sulaymān bin Ḥayyūn.


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{{DEFAULTSORT:Benaioun, Salomon Moroccan Jews Newspaper publishers (people) Printers 1921 deaths 1867 births