The greatest Jewish community in the ancient Hellenistic Diaspora was in Alexandria. In the Egyptian port city founded by Alexander the Great during his conquests of the known world.
A MAN sits in a security booth at the Nile Company for Medicine on Fouad Street in Alexandria last year. The building was previously a bank owned by Jewish Egyptian-Greek businessman Youssif Adda and is located in an area that used to be known as the Greek-Jewish quarter of the city(photo credit: REUTERS)ByELI KAVON