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in Israel than in India and they are to be found in Southgate shortly after receiving the MBE
all walks of life, in towns, in the kibbutzim and (Member of the Order of the British Empire) for
moshavim. Thus the seed sown by Habonim political and public services. From 1961 he
bore a rich harvest. represented the Spanish and Portuguese Jews'
Congregation at the Board of Deputies, chairing
Percy S Gourgey MBE (1923-2008) was born the aliens committee from 1973-79 and also the
and brought up in Bombay. He became a life- Eretz Israel committee. He was elected to the
long activist in communal affairs, initially in national executive in 1988. In 1993 he was
India and later in the UK, leaving India in 1952 elected vice-chairman of Hammersmith and
to make his home in South West London. He Fulham Council for Racial Equality and became
wrote articles for the Jewish Chronicle and chairman of the Labour Party's umbrella body,
other papers and lectured widely on Eastern the socialist societies section.
Jewry. In 1965 he stood as a Labour candidate
in the North London Tory stronghold of

Map of India showing main areas of Jewish concentration

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