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Yitzhak BERDUGO

Yitzhak BERDUGO son of Jekuthiel BERDUGO had three sons.

Rahamim David BERDUGO son of Yitzhak
- Amram BERDUGO
  - Yitzhak BERDUGO (sons: Amram BERDUGO, and Eliahou BERDUGO)
  - son
  - Yichi BERDUGO (sons: Amram BERDUGO, and Mordecai BERDUGO)
  - Rahamim BERDUGO (sons: Yakov BERDUGO, Raphael, and Abraham BERDUGO)
- Jonathan BERDUGO
  - Rahamim BERDUGO (sons: Saul BERDUGO and Jonathan BERDUGO)
  - Yitzhak BERDUGO
Yikotiel BERDUGO son of Yitzhak BERDUGO
- Mimoun BERDUGO
  - YiKotiel BERDUGO
  - Yehoshua BERDUGO (sons: Yikoutiel BERDUGO and Emnon BERDUGO)
- Elisha BERDUGO
  - YiKotiel BERDUGO (son: David BERDUGO)
  - Aba BERDUGO
- Yitzhak BERDUGO
  - Gabriel BERDUGO
  - Raphael BERDUGO
  - YiKotiel BERDUGO
  - David BERDUGO
  - Moïse BERDUGO
Shlomo BERDUGO son of Yitzhak married Miriam/Marie (??)
- Eliezar BERDUGO married Simha. Rich oil trader. Helped construct the new Jewish quarter (nouveau mellah) of Meknes. President of Association to construct Talmud Torah in Meknes. With money raised Talmud Torah was constructed in the New Mellah in 1930. Very generous man; gave bread to the arabs every Friday.
  - Perl BERDUGO
  - Salomon (Schlomo) BERDUGO married Nelly BERDUGO
    - Samuel (Sammy) BERDUGO. Children: Stephane BERDUGO, and daughter
    - Cecile BERDUGO
    - Jimmy Haim BERDUGO (d. 1998 Paris, France) married Celine ETTEDGUI (b. Rabat, Morocco). Celine now lives with her children and grandchildren in Israel.
      - Jerome Salomon BERDUGO (b. 1978) married Alexandra SPITZ. They are lawyers and live in Tel Aviv. Sons: Lior Haim BERDUGO and Harel Saadia BERDUGO
      - Esther BERDUGO (b. 1980) marcianoesther@gmail.com married David MARCIANO. They live in Jerusalem. Children: Roni MARCIANO and Tal Haim MARCIANO. They live in Jerusalem.
      - David BERDUGO (b. 1988), student at Hebrew University of Jerusalem's Business School.
    - Maurice BERDUGO married Sultana AMSELLEM.
      - Karen BERDUGO (b. 1978), lawyer in Paris
      - Eva BERDUGO, lawyer in Paris. Children: Sacha and Salome.
    - Roger BERDUGO sgberdugo at hotmail.com
  - Armand (Amram) BERDUGO married Michelle AMAR (the very beautiful daughter of Rabbi AMAR of Meknes) who died shortly after the marriage at the age of 20 leaving Armand with their infant daughter.
    - Linda BERDUGO
    Armand remarried and had more children.
  - Marie BERDUGO
  - Max BERDUGO married TOLEDANO and lives in Montreal
  - Hassiba BERDUGO
  - Messody BERDUGO lives in Montreal
- Abraham BERDUGO, businessman. Married Yamna.
  - Gracia BERDUGO, married Rahamim MREJEN relative of Henri MREJEN
    - Simha (Simone) MREJEN married Gabriel TOLEDANO (brother of Violette DHERY of Toulouse).
      - Dan TOLEDANO m. Florence LAMBROZO. Children: Sarah TOLEDANO, Yahir TOLEDANO, Noa TOLEDANO, Hava TOLEDANO
      - Meir TOLEDANO (d. about 1989)
      - Ouriel TOLEDANO m. Joelle. Children: Etan TOLEDANO, Yoram TOLEDANO.
    - Rebecca MREJEN married Gabriel MALKA
      - Déborah MALKA debomalka@hotmail.com.
    - Cecile MREJEN married Joseph TAKSIN son of Owsief TAKSIN and Beijla GELMAN.
      - Sarah TAKSIN married Benjamin WISNIEWSKI son of Jacques WISNIEWSKI and Yaelle BOUANICH. Thanks to Sarah for information on this branch of the family.
        
        Emmanuelle WISNIEWSKI
        Raphael WISNIEWSKI married Cyrille SARFATI. Son: Samuel WISNIEWSKI.
        Benjamin WISNIEWSKI married Sarah TAKSIN
      - Lionel TAKSIN
      - Benjamin TAKSIN
    - Shulamit MREJEN
    - Rachel MREJEN married Marcel ELHADDAD.
      - Emmanuelle ELHADDAD emma_mre@yahoo.com married Henri MREJEN relative of Rahamim MREJEN. See her photoblog on Tel-Aviv. Daughters: Romane MREJEN, Liora MREJEN
      - Judith ELHADDAD married Olivier Aiach DUPONT son of Semha AIACH (b. Algeria) and Jacques DUPONT. Thanks to Judith for information on this branch of the family tree.
      - Léa ELHADDAD
    - Michel MREJEN married Norma ABISSROR
      - Jérémie MREJEN
      - Hanna MREJEN
    - Raphael MREJEN married Esther Boussidan
      - David MREJEN david.mrejen at ca-indosuez.com
      - Michael MREJEN married (2001) Sarah KADOCHE
      - Jonathan MREJEN
    - Samson MREJEN married Danielle SARFATI
      - Ilana MREJEN
      - Leslie MREJEN
      - Nathanael MREJEN
    - Gabriel MREJEN married Yafa BENAMRAM
      - Audrey MREJEN
      - Laura MREJEN
      - Estelle MREJEN
      - Léa MREJEN
  Abraham remarried Rah'ma.
  - Marie BERDUGO married Mr. TORJMAN
  - Dolly BERDUGO married Rabbi David MESSAS (chief rabbi of Paris).
  - Haïm BERDUGO
  - Shlomo BERDUGO
- Haïm BERDUGO
  - Elisha BERDUGO
    - Haïm BERDUGO
    - Yitzhak BERDUGO
    - Moshe BERDUGO
- Yossef BERDUGO. Rich trader. President of Jewish community in Meknes 1935-1968. Joseph BERDUGO was one of the most remarkable figures of the jewish community in Meknes (20th century). Major grain trader. He was the president of the community from 1935 to his death in 1968. During his tenure, the community enjoyed great prosperity, developed its network of schools, inaugurated the new site of the Rabbinical Tribunal and the Association of Alliance Alumni (of which he was the first president in Meknes). During the 50s, he founded the first synagogue outisde of the Mellah in the European city. This synagogue carried his name until its recent closure due to low membership. Secretary of the Council of Jewish Communities of Morocco (1965). He played an important role nationally as member of the governement council during the final years of the protecterate.
  - David BERDUGO married Evelyne BERDUGO. (Her sister married David's brother Shlomo.) Paris businessman. Former president of the Association des Anciens Eleves de l'Alliance of Meknes where he was one of the founders of the Wifaq (Judeo-Muslim cooperation). Former director of the Ministry of Agriculture and the Wine and Alcohol Service of Morocco. Since coming to Paris in 1963, he has left public life.
    - Yosef BERDUGO
    - Michael BERDUGO
    - Benjamin BERDUGO
  - Jacques (Yaacov) BERDUGO
  - Shlomo (Serge) BERDUGO. Married Arlette BERDUGO sister of sister-in-law Evelyne BERDUGO.
    "In a creative appointment on November 13, 1994, the Moroccan government named a Jewish Moroccan, Serge BERDUGO, as tourism minister, the only Jewish minister in an Arab government." (Encyclopedia Britannica).
    Administated companies in Casablanca. Vice-president of Conseil des Communautes Israelites of Morocco, in charge of exterior relations. He tried to increase participation of the Jewish community in the national life and the democratic experience, as well as an opening to the world jewish community as exemplified by the return of Morocco in 1979 to the World Jewish Congress.
    - Marc BERDUGO, journalist
    - Yosef BERDUGO
  - Marie BERDUGO married Dr. Jacques DANAN of Fez.
  - Sol BERDUGO died young leaving behind 2 daughters, now married.
- Eliahou BERDUGO (b. 1903), first jewish pilot in Morocco. Represented Morocco at World Jewish Congress.
  - Yitzhak BERDUGO
  - Shlomo BERDUGO
- Jacob S. BERDUGO (b. 1907). President of Jewish community in Meknes after death of his brother Joseph in 1968. (Please contract me for details of his six children and eleven grandchildren.

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