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Documents filed in his citizenship case show the validity of his claims and reveal the complexity of Sephardic heritage.

In February 2019, twenty Rabbis from different parts of the world said Kaddish in memory of Aharon Ben-Zion Halevi who had burned to death in the fires of Oliveira do Hospital two years earlier.

Two worshipers and a security agent were killed at the Synagogue El Ghriba.

The cartoon had originated protests by ALPI, the Israeli embassy in Portugal and the Jewish communities of Oporto and Lisbon

"I owe the Lisbon community my decision to become a rabbi and to continue on a spiritual path.”

The extent of damage to synagogues is yet unknown.