Iraq’s last Jewish doctor, who treated the poor for free, dies in Baghdad – Dr. Thafer Eliyahu, 61, continued to receive patients even when country was being bombed in 2003 Gulf War | Timesofisrael

The last Jewish doctor in Iraq and one of the few remaining Jews in its capital, Baghdad, has died at the age of 61, reports said Tuesday.
Dr. Thafer Eliyahu, an orthopedic doctor at Wasiti Hospital, has been nicknamed “the doctor of the poor” since he treated those who couldn’t afford the costs for free, according to Israel’s Kan public broadcaster and Washington Post Iraq correspondent Mustafa Salim.Primis Player Placeholder