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Christianity and Islam. Later, the program’s goal expended and were defined as to open horizons to learn more about other religions, and to serve as a bridge to East Asian beliefs and traditions. After 10 fruitful years of activity the program developed into a cultural diplomacy and educational center: "The Sir Naim
Dangoor Centre for Universal monotheism". The Dangoor Centre (מרכז דנגור) is the direct continuation of the Dangoor Program which was active from 2008-2018. The Centre began its official activities during the 2019 academic school year at Bar-Ilan University.
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decided that the worsening political situation made it too risky for him to return. As a result of laws specific to Jews, he lost his Iraqi citizenship, and his property and business interests were taken by the government. He was eventually permitted to settle in the UK where he set about rebuilding his life, setting up a property business that his four sons went on to join.
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distribution of knowledge and insights on issues of universal cultural interest, based on tolerance, mutual respect, and a comprehensive and respectful intellectual worldview. It operates as an inter-religious and inter-cultural mediator in a variety of fields of knowledge and interest shared by all peoples and cultures, heritages and traditions from the West and East.
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Exilarch's Foundation also sponsors the Westminster Academy in West London, whose pupils hail from over 60 countries, many in the Middle East. Dangoor's family have been closely involved with the running of the school and have seen it go from being issued with an Ofsted 'Notice to Improve' in
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With the founding of the State of Israel and the resulting conflict between Israel and the Arab states, the situation for Jews in the country worsened and in 1959 Dangoor took the difficult decision to take his family out. He continued travelling back and forth for business until 1963, when he
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In 2008 Dangoor initiated "The Sir Naim
Dangoor Program for Universal Monotheism" at Bar Ilan University.The main goal of the program was to cultivate real peace and understanding through truth, ethics, and action of the broad common ground shared by the major monotheistic religions: Judaism,
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The primary aim of the Sir Naim
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Initially on leaving the army he had hoped to become an engineer on the railways, but due to restrictions imposed upon Jews this was not possible, so he and Ahmed, a Muslim, decided to go into business together, setting up
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Eliahou Dangoor Scholarships, in honour of his father. These were awarded to four thousand undergraduate students, with limited means, studying STEM (science, technology, engineering and maths) subjects.
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As his business in the UK grew, he wanted to give back to the country that had taken him in. In 1980 he set up the
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Their first contract was to supply new windows to all Iraqi government buildings, and soon their portfolio grew to include property development and letting. In 1950, Eastern industries secured the first contract to bottle
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in its history. The donation is being used to help support young people from disadvantaged backgrounds who would like to pursue a career in medicine, as well as supporting the society's post-graduate education provision.
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2009, to being rated as 'Outstanding' in 2013. Since the
Academy opened the number of students achieving five A*-C GCSE grades including both English and Maths has increased from 17% to 70% in 2014.
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in 1914, the second of six siblings. His father, Eliahou Dangoor (1883–1976), was the world's largest printer of Arabic books, and his grandfather
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Naim Dangoor (left) with his friend Ahmed Safwat in the 1940s
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in London, Europe's largest biomedical research centre.
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from which he received an honorary doctorate in 2006.
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earlier that year). They went on to have four sons.
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