{"id":53363,"date":"2025-10-03T12:58:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T12:58:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/53363\/"},"modified":"2025-10-03T12:58:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T12:58:06","slug":"syrian-jew-to-run-for-countrys-parliament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/53363\/","title":{"rendered":"Syrian Jew to run for country&#8217;s Parliament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\" album=\"true\" data-v-2a4c3726=\"\" data-v-e580db1b-s=\"\">Henri Hamra, son of former Syrian Chief Rabbi Yosef Hamra, has announced his candidacy for a parliamentary seat in Damascus, according to Kan News.<\/p>\n<p data-v-2a4c3726=\"\" data-v-e580db1b-s=\"\">The elections are scheduled to take place this coming Sunday, and his announcement has generated significant attention on Arab social media.<\/p>\n<p data-v-2a4c3726=\"\" data-v-e580db1b-s=\"\">In his campaign platform, Hamra outlines his main positions, including strengthening Syrian national identity, promoting the country\u2019s reconstruction and accelerating economic growth, as well as establishing a constitutional regime based on principles of social justice.<\/p>\n<p data-v-2a4c3726=\"\" data-v-e580db1b-s=\"\">He also highlights the importance of preserving Syria\u2019s national and cultural heritage and expanding dialogue with Syrians living abroad.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" album=\"true\" data-v-2a4c3726=\"\" data-v-e580db1b-s=\"\">Hamra and his father left Syria for the United States in the 1990s. In recent months, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.israelnationalnews.com\/news\/404599\" target=\"_blank\" data-v-2a4c3726=\"\" data-v-e580db1b-s=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">he returned for visits<\/a> under the new regime, with the aim of strengthening the local Jewish community.<\/p>\n<p data-v-2a4c3726=\"\" data-v-e580db1b-s=\"\">Among other elements of his platform, Hamra stresses the need to present a vision of a \u201cNew Syria\u201d to both the domestic and international public, one that maintains cultural stability while fostering economic development to support both the community and the state at large.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Henri Hamra, son of former Syrian Chief Rabbi Yosef Hamra, has announced his candidacy for a parliamentary seat&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":53364,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85,46,43,4713,23748],"class_list":["post-53363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-news","tag-syria","tag-syrian-jews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53363\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}