So far, nine Portuguese-Israelis have lost their lives following the Hamas attack on October 7.
Adina Moshe, one of the Hamas hostages in Gaza since October 7, has been granted Portuguese nationality, according to information provided by the Presidency of the Republic to the Jewish Community of Porto.
Murdered Portuguese nationals (9):
1. Gilad Ben Yehuda (28 years old)
Son of Sochi Gali Gavriel Eskenazi from a traditional Turkish Sephardic family, which maintained the use of the Ladino language for centuries, with records of this family in the Portuguese synagogues of Edirne and Adrianópolis (“Kahal Kadosh” Portugal and “Kahal Kadosh” Évora), as well as in the Jewish institutions in Izmir, the “Kahal Kadosh Portugal” and the institution “Dotar as Orfãs”.
2. Liraz Assulin Shitrit (38 years old)
Daughter of Meir Assulin and Rikva Shitrit, from traditional Sephardic families in Morocco. This family’s records extend across communities in North Africa, including the Portuguese plot at the Rabat Jewish Cemetery, in Tangier.
3. Gila Peled Cohen (58 years old)
For a traditional Sephardic family from Tunis, there is information about this family in the lists of ketubot (marriage contracts) from the 17th century. XVII and XVIII, from the Portuguese Sephardic community of Tunis.
4. Daniel Peled (28 years old), son of Gila Cohen.
5. Nevo Arad (25 years old)
Son of Ronen Arad Edry from a traditional Moroccan Sephardic family, with records of this family in numerous local communities, as well as in the Portuguese section of the Jewish Cemetery in Rabat, in Tangier.
6. Dorin Atias (22 years old)
Surnames present in Jewish communities of Portuguese descent in Izmir, Thessaloniki, Bulgaria, Livorno and others. In the form Athias, the surname is common among Jews who, coming from Gibraltar and Morocco, returned to Portugal in the 19th and 20th centuries and were eventually buried in the British cemetery of Estrela and in the Jewish cemeteries of Lisbon and Faro.
7. Rotem Neumann Kadosh (25 years old)
Descendant of Sephardic Jews of Portuguese descent, paternally and maternally, from traditional Sephardic families of the Mediterranean and the Balkans.
8. Orin Bira (53 years old)
Son of Simcha Kasorlla from a traditional Sephardic family from the Balkans, in the former Yugoslavia, nicknamed Paredes/Pardess, with the usual practice of Ladino mixing words from Portuguese, Castilian, Turkish, Greek and Hebrew.
9. Tair Bira (21 years old), daughter of Orin.
Also murdered, with links to Portugal (6):
10. Niv Raviv (27 years old)
Comes from a traditional Moroccan Sephardic family, as others described in this communication.
11. Saïd Moshe (75 years old)
Husband of Adina Moshe, Portuguese from a traditional family of the Sephardic community in Turkey.
12, 13 and 14. Tal, Jazmin and Tahel Bira, brother, wife and youngest daughter of Orin Bira.
15. Hana Or
Wife of Dror Or, from an Argentine family from the former Ottoman Empire.
Portuguese hostages (4):
16. Adina Moshe (Galante) (72 years old)
From a traditional family of the traditional Sephardi community of the former Ottoman Empire, especially from Turkey, there are records of this family in Portuguese synagogues and institutions that existed in Izmir, Edirne and others, such as the “Kahal Kadosh Portugal”.
17. Offer Kaldaron (52 years old)
Son of David Kalderon, from a traditional Sephardic family from the former Ottoman Empire, especially from Greece, with records of this family in synagogues and Portuguese institutions that existed in Thessaloniki: the “Kahal Kadosh Portugal”, the “Kahal Kadosh Lisbon”, the “Kahal Kadosh Évora”, “Portugal Velha” and others.
18. Idan Shtivi (28 years old)
Son of Dali Oron (Naftali Benveniste) of Bulgarian family descent. Surnames present in the ancient communities of Bulgaria, Thessaloniki (“Kahal Kadosh Portugal”, “Kahal Kadosh Lisbon”, “Kahal Kadosh Évora”), Izmir (“Kahal Kadosh Portugal” and institution “Dotar as Orfãs”), Morocco, Tunisia, Hamburg, Livorno and others.
19. Moshe Saadyan (26 years old)
Son of Vered Moshe (Zubi), from a traditional Sephardic family from the former Ottoman Empire, especially in Turkey and ancient Palestine, crossed with the Moroccan Sephardic family nicknamed Bouskila.
Hostages with links to Portugal (5).
20. Dror Or (48 years old).
In the process of obtaining nationality. Son of Youval Armoza from an Argentine family from the former Ottoman Empire
21, 22 and 23. Alma (17 years old), Noam (15 years old) and Liam Or (23 years old), minor daughters and cousins of Dror Or.
24. Ravid Arie Katz (51 years old)
In the process of obtaining nationality. Nephew of Amos Jehoshua Sochat, Portuguese, as he is a descendant of Sephardic Jews from the former Ottoman Empire. The name Arie also appears in the lists of names of Jews who in the 19th and 20th centuries belonged to the Portuguese synagogue of the Israeli community in the city of Izmir (Izmir) in Turkey, the “Kahal Kadosh Portugal”, and to the institution of ” Doping” for the orphans of the Portuguese community in Smyrna, in the 17th and 18th centuries.
Seriously injured (1):
25. Menachem Hillel Ben Kalifa (22 years old)
Son of Rephael Ben Kalifa (Attar/Assayag), who is the son of Miriam Attar Assayag, from a family from the traditional Sephardic community in Morocco. In the 19th and 20th centuries, members of this family returned to Portugal, with their names recorded in the Jewish cemeteries of Lisbon and the Azores.
Source: DN
