3 October 2025. Syrian-American Rabbi Henry Hamra announced his candidacy for the People’s Council in Damascus, the first Jewish candidate for Syria’s People’s Council since 1967. His platform promotes reconstruction, economic growth, and lifting the US Caesar Act sanctions. He stressed his belief in a united and tolerant Syria, and his aim to bridge Syrian communities at home and abroad. Hamra’s father, Youssef Hamra, the Chief Rabbi of Syrian Jews in NY, left Syria in 1992.
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