Salman Shina

Born in Baghdad, Salman Shina attended an Alliance school there. During World War I, he was an officer in the Ottoman army, eventually taken prisoner by the British. After the war, he returned to Baghdad and became a lawyer. In the 1920s, he founded, edited, and wrote for an Arabic-language Jewish literary journal called al-Misbaḥ. Shina served as a member of the Iraqi parliament from 1947 to 1951, when he immigrated to Israel along with the rest of the Jewish community. He died in Ramat Gan.