Chehata Haroun, a leading Egyptian Jewish politician, died March 14 at age 82. Haroun was an anti-Zionist who stayed in Egypt when most of the Jewish community fled because of persecution after the founding of Israel in 1948. He was a founding member of Egypt’s Communist Party in the 1940s.
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