The Eleven

Eleven members of Lebanon's Jewish community, abducted during the Lebanese Civil War.

The eleven memorial records

  1. Raoul Mizrahi

    Electrical-tool shop owner and electrical engineer

    Kidnapped: July 1984. Record status: Body recovered.

  2. Selim Mourad Jamous

    Secretary of the Lebanese Jewish community

    Kidnapped: 15 August 1984. Record status: Still missing.

  3. Haim Hallala Cohen

    Department-store accountant

    Kidnapped: 29 March 1985. Record status: Body recovered.

  4. Dr Elie Hallac

    Pediatrician known as the “doctor of the poor”

    Kidnapped: 30 March 1985. Record status: Burial place unknown.

  5. Elie Youssef Srour

    Merchant entrusted with preparing the dead for Jewish burial

    Kidnapped: 30 March 1985. Record status: Record disputed.

  6. Isaac Sasson

    Pharmaceutical executive

    Kidnapped: 31 March 1985. Record status: Burial place unknown.

  7. Isaac Tarrab

    Retired mathematics professor

    Kidnapped: Spring 1985. Record status: Body recovered.

  8. Yehuda Beniste

    Former Safra Bank manager

    Kidnapped: 15 February 1986. Record status: Exact fate unresolved.

  9. Ibrahim Beniste

    Member of the Beniste family of Beirut

    Kidnapped: 15 February 1986. Record status: Accounts conflict.

  10. Youssef Beniste

    Merchant

    Kidnapped: Summer 1985. Record status: Burial place unknown.

  11. Henri Mann

    Shopkeeper

    Kidnapped: Date not established. Record status: Burial place unknown.

Sources and research notes

Primary source: Kirsten E. Schulze, The Jews of Lebanon: Between Coexistence and Conflict, 2nd revised and expanded edition (2009), printed pages 170–175; PDF pages 103–106.