Haim Benchimol

Haim Benchimol (1826 or 1834 - 1906) was a Moroccan businessman, newspaper publisher, Jewish community leader and philanthropist in Tangier, Morocco.

[4] In his 1886 anti-Semitic polemic La France juive, Edouard Drumont accused Benchimol of being the "true master" of the French diplomatic delegation in Tangier, implying he was able to manipulate it to support Jewish and Masonic interests.

[9] Benchimol was entrepreneurially involved in Freemasonry, the Moroccan Jewish community, and the advocacy of European and especially French intervention to modernize Morocco.

[12] Benchimol also served as a local correspondent for La France, a Paris-based financial daily,[citation needed] and for the Havas news agency.

[2] The Donna and Haim Benchimol Foundation, which perpetuates his memory, was among the donors of the renovation of the Beit Yehuda Synagogue in the medina of Tangier and its repurposing as a Jewish museum.

Photograph of Haim Benchimol in Isaac Laredo's memoir Memorias de un Viejo Tangerino , 1935
Portal of the former site of the Banque Transatlantique in Tangier