Three Portuguese nationals and the remains of three others are expected to be released in the coming days as part of the Middle East peace plan proposed by Donald Trump. The plan initially involves an exchange of 48 hostages, both living and deceased, for Palestinian prisoners.
The three living Portuguese citizens are Segev Halfon, aged 27, and brothers Ariel Cunio and David Cunio, aged 28 and 35 respectively, according to the Jewish Community of Porto.
The brothers hail from a traditional Sephardic family in Turkey. Their great-grandparents, José and Anna Cunio, were born in the 19th century at the heart of the Ottoman Empire and maintained family records in Izmir at the former institutions “Kahal Kadosh Portugal” and “Dotar as Órfãs”. The Cunio family holds Israeli, Portuguese, and Argentinian citizenship.
The Jewish Community of Porto also awaits the release of the remains of Yossi Sharabi, 53, from a Moroccan family named Turgeman, which has records in the Lisbon Jewish cemetery, as some family members returned to Portugal after the abolition of the Inquisition; Ran Gvili, 26, from a Sephardic Egyptian family and great-grandson of Eduardo Nada; and Dror Or Ermoza, 48, from an Ottoman Sephardic family that spoke Ladino and inspired the Netflix series “Beauty Queen of Jerusalem”. Dror Or held Israeli, Portuguese, and Argentinian citizenship.
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