Word: sasson
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Died. Rabbi Sasson Khadouri, 91, longtime leader of Iraq's beleaguered Jews; in Baghdad. Greeting foreign visitors with what one American correspondent called the "cautious dignity of a tightrope walker," the Grand Rabbi presided over the decline of Iraq's Jewish community from an estimated 150,000 in 1947 to fewer than 3,000. Though Khadouri found it good politics to oppose Zionism, the Iraq government made life difficult for his people by executing or imprisoning many of them as "Israeli spies...