{{short description|Iraqi businessman, landowner, philanthropist and politician (1846–1940)}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Menahem Saleh Daniel | native_name = {{nobold|مناحيم صالح دانيال}} | native_name_lang = ar | image = Menahem Saleh Daniel.jpg | image_size = 250px | office = Senator | term_start = 1925 | term_end = 1929 | constituency = Baghdad | office1 = Member of the Chamber of Deputies of the Ottoman Empire | term_start1 = 1877 | term_end1 = 1880 | constituency1 = Baghdad | birth_date = {{Birth date|1846|03|01|df=y}} | birth_place = Baghdad, Ottoman Empire (now Iraq) | death_date = {{Death date and age|1940|11|03|1846|03|01|df=y}} | death_place = Baghdad, Iraq | resting_place = Ezekiel's Tomb, Baghdad | profession = Businessman, landowner, politician }} '''Menahem Saleh Daniel''' ({{langx|ar|مناحيم صالح دانيال|rtl=yes}}; 1 March 1846 – 3 November 1940) was an Iraqi businessman, landowner, philanthropist and politician. He served as a member of the Senate of Iraq and deputy of the Ottoman Chamber of Deputies representing Baghdad.
==Biography== Menahem Saleh Daniel was born on 1 March 1846 in Baghdad, to Iraqi Jewish parents. He studied in the schools of Baghdad before moving to Europe to study science. He was elected on behalf of Baghdad as a representative in the first Ottoman Chamber of Deputies in 1877. He became famous in commercial and economic circles and was known for his commercial relations with the country's notables. Daniel was appointed as a member of the first board of directors of the Baghdad Brigade, which was founded by the governor, Medhat Pasha. After the establishment of the monarchy in Iraq, he became a member of the Senate of Iraq in 1925, representing the Mosaic Jewish community in Iraq.<ref>البغداديون أخبارهم ومجالسهم - تأليف إبراهيم عبد الغني الدروبي - مطبعة الرابطة - بغداد 1958م - مجلس مناحيم دانيال - صفحة 209.</ref><ref name=dangoor>{{cite web|last1=Basri|first1=Meer|title=Prominent Iraqi Jews of recent times|url=http://www.dangoor.com/issue76/articles/76060.htm|website=dangoor|access-date=23 November 2015}}</ref><ref name="DaniyalGreene">{{cite web |last1=Greene |first1=Annie |title=What Do You Know? Iraq's Jewish History |url=https://katz.sas.upenn.edu/blog/what-do-you-know-iraqs-jewish-history |website=Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies |access-date=28 April 2019}}</ref> His son Ezra Saleh Daniel (1874–1952) succeeded him on the Senate.<ref name="MoradShasha2008">{{cite book|author1=T. Morad|author2=D. Shasha|title=Iraq's Last Jews: Stories of Daily Life, Upheaval, and Escape from Modern Babylon|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IVCBDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA186|year=2008|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan US|isbn=978-0-230-61623-3|page=186}}</ref>
His father Saleh Daniel, was famous for his charitable projects and had a palace located in Al-Sinak area. Menahem Daniel was known as the "Man with the White Hand" as he founded and built the first orphanage for Muslim orphans and spent on it from his own money to help Muslim orphans and those from different sects.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2016-09-19 |title=Wayback Machine |url=http://almadasupplements.com/news.php?action=view&id=9559 |access-date=2022-06-06 |website= |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160919043618/http://almadasupplements.com/news.php?action=view&id=9559 |archive-date=19 September 2016 |url-status=dead}}</ref>
==Philanthropy== Daniel made substantial donations to both Jewish and Muslim charities, and built a Muslim orphanage in 1928, and a Jewish primary school in 1910.
==Personal life== His nephew was Sassoon Eskell.
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