Thank you, mmogno, that was really interesting.

BTW, amarsarit, I believe that Egypt was a jus soli country. That would mean that even if your grandfather was an Italian citizen, he may have acquired Egyptian citizenship by being born in that country. Because it was automatic citizenship ...

Hello everyone!

Here are my responses to your questions:

1. I know for sure the family had Italian passports because my grandfather's sister is still alive, and remembers having an Italian passport - and so did the rest of her siblings and parents. When Jews came to Israel in those years, the ...

Many Jewish families moved to Egypt in the 19th century to work on the Suez Canal. Egypt mostly refused to grant them citizenship so most retained their citizenship from their country of origin for generations. In fact one of the most famous Jewish families in Egypt, the Cicurel family, was of ...

Hello all,
I'd like to receive some expert advice on this issue please.
My grandfather was born to a Jewish family in Cairo in 1929. He did not have an Egyptian citizenship but I recently discovered he (as well as sibling and parents) had an Italian passport when he left Egypt for Israel.
We know ...