Description: 1939 Jewish Palestine Israel Jerusalem Identity Card KAMINITZ MARCUS KAMINITZ Mordechai Aharon (Markus) KaminitzBorn in the Old City, on Hebron Street in Jerusalem, in (24.2.1872).Helped his father open the first modern hotel called "Jerusalem Kaminitz Hotel" in JerusalemWorld-renowned guests stayed at the hotel, including Baron Benjamin Edmond de Rothschild and his wife A. Dalia, Prof. Bodenheimer, Nachum Sokolov, Menachem Mendel Osishkin, Dr. Arthur Rupin, Paul Natan (director of the schools in Israel of the "Hazara" company " From Germany, Vysotsky (owner of the tea industry).Knew Haj Amin al-Husseini personally. It is interesting that Husseini treated the Jews sympathetically at the time. He would give licenses to Marcus to visit with tourists in the courtyard and the place of the temple on the day of Ramadan. At a time when they were not allowed to enter on this holiday.During the First World War he befriended the high officials of the Turkish government as well as the commanders of the Turkish and German army, and through them he was able to save many Jews who were accused of various charges (failing to register for the army, or fleeing from the army, etc.). All this he did not in order to receive an award. He also had access to the Consul General of Spain in Jerusalem, the Comte de Blouver and obtained from him passports for the subjects of Spain to many Jews who were called up for the Turkish army or for public works (Emaliye), etc. and thus were released from the army or not deported from the country as enemy subjects... even with the police chiefs who visited At the hotel and enjoying drinks and bribes, he had friendly relations and many Jerusalemites were saved by his efforts from military service, etc.During the First World War, the western powers tried to acquire as many of the country's citizens as possible and bring them into the subjects of their countries in order to thereby increase their influence in Turkey, and especially in Jerusalem at the time.The late Menachem Mendel Kaminitz (Boim) and the late Eliezer Lipa received the British grant and his son Bezalel Avraham Kaminitz - acquired the Ottoman grant as well as all his children.Mordechai Aharon Markus - acquired the Sephardic possessions.The leaders of the settlement in the First World War who were persecuted and banned and sentenced to exile and humiliation to Syria or Turkey, among them: Meir Dizengoff, Dr. Haim Bogarshov (graduate); Dr. Ben-Zion Mosenzon; The brothers Yosef and Binyamin Kandinoff, the attorney David Moyal, etc., all from Tel Aviv, moved to Jerusalem according to his intercession and stayed in his hotel. Also the distinguished Moslems, Christians and Druze from Lebanon and Syria who were exiled to Jerusalem stayed in his hotel, and he made it easier for them through his influence with the police, etc. (From: the Encyclopedia website for the pioneers of the settlement and its builders) for condition see pictures
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