The construction of the Ohel Leah Synagogue in 1901 marked the beginning of a fully fledged religious life for the city's local Jews.

These families hired mainly Jewish employees in their trading firms, which encouraged the influx of new Baghdadi and Mumbai Jews to Hong Kong.

The already established Baghdadi traders helped Ashkenazim start small businesses in Hong Kong after learning about their struggles from Jewish publications.

[13][14][5] As the records of the Jewish community were destroyed during World War II, information on the historical numbers of Hong Kong Jews is incomplete.

He led the operations of the David Sassoon & Co. trading house in China and Japan, controlled the shipments of Indian opium, as well as the company's cargo transportation between Mumbai, Kolkata, Hong Kong, Canton, Shanghai, Nagasaki and Yokohama.

Initially, he helped his older brother Elias Sassoon and after his death, he headed the family business in Hong Kong and oversaw affairs throughout the Far East.

[20] In addition to Frederick, his elder brother Arthur (Abraham) David Sassoon (1840–1912) was also on the board of directors of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation.

He was the head of the Bosman and Co. trading house, co-owner of the Hongkong Hotel, and a director of the Hong Kong and Whampoa Dock, which was founded in 1863 by Scottish businessman Thomas Sutherland.

In the early twentieth century, a member of the Kadoorie family, Eleazer Silas (1867–1944) was becoming the new leader of Hong Kong's Jewish community as the Sassoons' focus shifted to Shanghai and Britain.

[46][33] In June 1940, the British authorities abruptly announced the evacuation of women and children off the island to Australia due to the threat of a Japanese invasion.

[51] After the war, some of the local Jews who had managed to escape Hong Kong, returned; in 1949, the previously destroyed Jewish Club was restored.

[63] Five Torah scrolls, belonging to the ancient Jewish community of Kaifeng were discovered in the so-called "Thieves' Market" of Cat Street (Lascar Row quarter in the Sheung Wan district) in 1974.

A year later, the Israeli Consul General in Hong Kong and Macau was officially appointed (Israel formally established diplomatic relations with China in 1992).

[15] Most of the Jews are concentrated on Hong Kong Island, where the main objects of Jewish public life are situated—mostly in the Mid-Levels, Central and Admiralty districts.

[79] Among the modern significant members of the Jewish community of Hong Kong are: The Jews in Hong Kong freely practice their religious holidays, including holding Shabbat meals, celebrating the main Jewish holidays (Yom Kippur, Rosh Hashanah, Hanukkah, Shavuot, Pesach and others), and developing religious educational programs.

[68] The business complex Wing On Plaza in the Tsim Sha Tsui East area houses the office of the Sephardic community Kehilat Zion, which unites more than 900 people.

[43] The cemetery is surrounded on all sides by high-rise residential buildings; it is accessible along a narrow passage between a Buddhist temple and a school attached to it.

The funeral lists indicate that most of the dead in the early years of the cemetery were men, since at that time it was not customary for travellers to settle in Hong Kong with their families.

The Kadoorie and Gubbai families, whose graves are located together, preferred tombstones with narrow polished granite sarcophagi covered with protruding lids.

Another report in 1936 stated that a small school had opened "some time ago", but was closed due to the "lack of interest in parents in sending their children to learn Hebrew".

Elsa High School includes science laboratories, a library, music, art and design classrooms, a 500-seat auditorium, conference and fitness rooms, and an all-weather artificial turf field.

[90] The Jewish Community Centre, located in the Mid-Levels area on Robinson Road, operates the Holly Rofé Early Learning Center.

[67] In the early 1990s, the east wing of the former hospital was occupied by the Carmel school, which provided religious and secular education according to the tenets of Modern Orthodox Judaism.

The Society searches for, researches and preserves historical materials on Jews and Judaism in Hong Kong and China, holds exhibitions, lectures and seminars, and publishes books and collections of documents.

It annually implements many cultural, social and educational programs, and also collects donations for charitable organisations in Israel and for the local Jewish community.

The Hong Kong Jewish community raises funds for various programs of the Israeli organisation Keren Hayesod, annually widely celebrates Israel's Independence Day and Yom HaZikaron, and also holds events in support of non-profit organisations the Jewish National Fund and the United Israel Appeal.

Almost all Jewish congregations in Hong Kong provide kosher food delivery services to homes and hotels, and organise banquets and off-site receptions.

However, there are cases when even rich merchants from among the Baghdadi Jews were denied membership in the elite Hong Kong Club (founded in 1846), where only British Anglicans were allowed to rest.

The standard explanation for these statistics is that the Jewish presence in Hong Kong has always been small, and prominent members of the community have been successful in commerce and philanthropy.

While preparing a lawsuit against the newspaper, the Jewish Initiative Group found that there is no article in Hong Kong law prohibiting incitement to racial violence.