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BOTSWANA

(previously Bechuanaland)


THE JEWISH COMMUNITY

http://www.jewishgen.org/SAfrica/subcont.htm#BOTSWANA

A number of prominent Jewish farmers and traders contributed in many ways to the development of this sparsely populated vast country. Courtesy of Dr. Saul Issroff: saul@issroff.com [June 2000]



THE CEMETERIES

GABORONE:
A small contemporary Jewish community exists in 2000. Jews are buried among others in non-Jewish cemeteries.
Source: Spiritual Leader to the Botswana Jewish community, Moshe Silberhaft, member of the African Jewish Congress and the SA Jewish Board of Deputies, PO Box 87557, Houghton 2041, South Africa; Fax: +2711 6464940; Tel: +2711 4861434. E-mail: Msilber@global.co.za. Source: Saul Issroff saul@issroff.com
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