David A. Dangoor

David A. Dangoor is a British businessman and philanthropist, president of 'Jewish Renaissance Magazine' and until recently president of the board of The S&P Sephardi Community, the oldest Jewish community in the UK, spanning over 350 years. He will be inaugurating the Sir Naim Dangoor Center for UK-Israel Relations at Mishkenot Sha'ananim during an upcoming conference titled "From Balfour to Brexit."

 CHILDREN put on a presentation at a Jewish school in Benghazi, Libya, in 1944.

Israeli education must include Mizrahi history, culture - opinion

Children of a family that immigrated to Israel from Libya in 1950.

Learning about Middle Eastern and North African Jews can help solve Jewish challenges - opinion

 Iraq flag (illustrative).

Israel should make peace with Iraq through the Abraham Accords - opinion


Remembering the Farhud pogrom and its lessons for today - opinion

One of the most important elements to this is how best to understand and then combat hate, incitement and violence between communities.

This Monument, ‘Prayer,’ in Ramat Gan, is in memory of the Jews who were killed in Iraq during the Farhud pogrom (1941) and in the 1960s.

Redress for the Jews from Arab countries

Unfortunately, all of this ended in the 20th century, when its Jews, and the Jews of the entire Arab world fled or were expelled from their homes and communities.

JEWISH OLIM from Yemen near a tent in 1949

For greater solidarity, Jews should join mass kaddish on Nov. 30

In the first half of the 20th century, almost 900,000 Jews lived in Arab countries, whereas today there exists no more than a few thousand.

A JEWISH man prays at a Moroccan synagogue.

Those who are commanded to peace should actively pursue it

There are few other concepts that receive so much attention in the central scriptures of Judaism, Christianity and Islam than the pursuit of peace.

Sites and Insights: Where history meets scripture

It is time for a Yom Hashoah symbol

British author Margot Asquith once said: “Symbols are the imaginative signposts of life.” We need symbols to make sense of everything, to bind us to something and to guide us to somewhere.

A visitor to the US Holocaust Memorial Museum walks past a mural of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in Washington, January 26, 2007

The future of medicine is being formulated in Israel

Although the field of Personalized Medicine is still relatively young, it is growing at an unbelievable pace.

Health database

Israeli outreach to Iraqis can have substantial benefits

A few days ago, Israel’s Foreign Affairs Ministry launched a new Facebook page, specifically dedicated to engaging and creating a dialogue with the Iraqi public.

An Iraqi woman casts her vote at a polling station during the parliamentary election in Baghdad, Iraq May 12, 2018.

Remembering Baghdad

The exodus of the Jews from many parts of the world is frequently and sadly sometimes a precursor for other forced migrations.

AN IRAQI RESIDENT walks past an old building destroyed during an electrical fire in Baghdad in 2011.

UK–Israel relations: 100 years since the Balfour Declaration

Today we are also secured by our ties in trade, investment, security, cooperation, technology and science, for the benefit of the peoples of both countries.

UK AND Israeli flags together at a march in London.