Fifteen years ago, there were about two hundred assimilated Jews in a country of 88,000 km². Jewish life was dead in Portugal. Time did not pass quickly, but it was intense, year after year. The country now has about six thousand Jews, Jewish institutions and educational activities that stand out worldwide.

In Porto, an empty building once erected full of hope, was like a coffin fifteen years ago. Today it is filled with life, as the local congregation and its leadership promoted a Jewish revitalization plan that was destined to succeed from the very beginning.

Create Jewish life in Porto, based in the Kadoorie synagogue, identify the Jews of the city and surrounding areas, assemble them around religious and cultural institutions and the Israeli embassy, bring Jewish students to local universities and make the community attractive to newcomers. To this end, the central point was to create a stable and lasting minyan, as well as a cemetery, involving the State of Israel and the greatest rabbinical authorities of the Jewish world on all continents in the entire project.

Sponsor the establishment of Chabad Lubavitch throughout the territory of Portugal, with its unparalleled strength in the creation of Jewish life, and with its Portuguese origin. Chabad is now active in Cascais, Lisbon, Porto, and Albufeira. Besides, Chabad worldwide received financial support from the community in 14 countries for the development of its work.

Create a cultural infrastructure that would bring together museums, libraries, cinema, music, art and everything else that could fuse the legacy of the community's ancestors, their stories and traditions, their customs and values, their thoughts, achievements, and their failures, claims and disappointments.

Teach about the Holocaust: to bring together the relatives of victims of Nazism in an educational project that would extend to all schools in continental Portugal and its islands. For this purpose, it was necessary to create a museum and make known the records of the refugees who arrived in Porto. The embassies of all the nations that saved the Jews in World War II, as well as the state of Israel, were linked to the museum from the beginning.

Promote a better world: bring together B'nai B'rith, the International Monitoring Centre for Human Rights and the Israeli Embassy for a joint project to defend human rights in general and Jewish human rights in particular. They were linked to the project by Israel's most reputable families, as well as young Jewish leaders from 150 countries.

Invest in the human qualities of the members of the community, using their intelligence, culture, strength, goodness, and transcendent missions of the soul, to promote belief, unity, work, and courage. The goal was never to have many friends in Portugal, but to honor ancestors and future members of the Jewish community. It was always assumed that a large-scale Jewish project would attract persecution, but there was no desire to maintain a comatose situation that only attracted contempt and desolation. All that is harmful to the Jewish mission, including vanity, envy, gossip, the need for recognition, and proselytism were struck down at once, as well as were put under control the millennial opponents of the Jews: antiSemites of all stripes, haters of Judeo-Christian civilization, and so on.

Record the entire history of the Jewish community of Porto, ancient and current, projects completed, attacks against it, and results, for information of Israel and militar empires. No one, not even a state, can spit out the Jews, define them at their discretion and win the judgment of history. Checkmate!

The "Jewish Plan" for Portugal, although human, required refinement, good constellations and a lot of divine protection. The project was conceived, thought and executed. Jews have created life out of death, and culture out of darkness. They filled synagogues with worshipers. They built museums in just two months.

Yet, the socialist system called so much Jewish life "opulence" and the four branches of state aligned themselves in the same thinking. When she was assaulted in her home, the granddaughter of the Portuguese Dreyfus wrote a letter to the future generations: "The raid on my house remembers similar situations that occurred many years ago at my grandfather's residence. The Lisbon police wanted to find suitcases of money. Who do they really think they are?"

The community even wished to unite, in defense of the Portuguese flag, dozens of Jews of merit with free access to the great imperial palaces of the present era. The enlargement of the continental shelf and the exploitation of the riches of the Portuguese sea would be the first steps. This project was presented in a meeting with the government in 2020. Political mainstream decided to follow another path. Future generations will witness what the result was.