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Ecole de la Communaute Israélite du Caire, Cairo, Egypt

The largest Jewish community school. It was also called בית הספר של העדה העברית בקהיר. 


Was once separate boys and girls school with garden separating. Then the southern half became a government school for Arab studens. Those students used to chant insults at the Jewish pupils across the garden.


Today Madrsat al-Ahram a-thanawiya.


Sarah Mangoubi was last-ever principal of the school. Closed in 1966.


The Israelite school which opened in 1920 near Fagala on Sakakini Street, was named after its benefactor, Moise de Cattaui Pasha. A decade earlier, on May 20, 1909, it was Moise Cattaui who inaugurated an Israelite school situated on Hassan al-Akbar street, opposite the Khedivial Law School. In 1927 the large Israelite school of Abbasia was inaugurated a few meters from the hospital thanks to generous donations from Joseph Aslan Cattaui Pasha and other members of the Jewish community.

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Cairo, Egypt

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