Yarur Lolas emigrated from Palestine, then part of the Ottoman Empire, with his younger brother Nicolas in 1902 and set out for Latin America, where they already had relatives in Chile and Bolivia.

After working as peddlers for a few years, the two eventually set up a small textile plant in La Paz in 1929.

They were invited by President Arturo Alessandri in the mid-1930s to set up larger operations in Santiago, even offering generous incentives that included no custom duties on imported machine tools, low tariffs for imported supplies, and a loan exceeding $1 million USD from the country's largest bank.

[4] Together with the German colony, he tried to hire Hjalmar Schacht, Adolf Hitler's Economy Minister, as a "financial adviser" shortly after World War II, but the plan fell through when it became news.

[4] In April 1971, the Yurar textile factory was forcefully nationalised by the Allende government, alongside other successful enterprises owned by Palestinian immigrants.