Raffaello Fellah, a leader of exiled Libyan Jewry, died at the age of 73.
Fellah, a Tripoli native, died Sept. 9 in Rome. He and about 6,000 other Libyan Jews fled widespread persecution in 1967. Most moved to Israel, but Fellah was among about 2,000 Libyan Jews who settled in Italy.
A businessman, Fellah was a prominent figure in Italian Jewry, a past president of the World Organization of Libyan Jews and a member of the World Sephardic Federation. He also was a co-founder of a group aimed at promoting “trialogue” among Jews, Christians and Muslims. — jta