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- Yitzhak was born in Ana in 1860. He immigrated early to Egypt and settled down there. He married Rahma of the House of Suweri (Soueri) and they had only one daughter, Mass'ouda.
Ytzhak's grandson, Albert, reported that his grandfather had a shop in Aswan, headquarters of the Angl-Egyptian army which was commanded by General Kitchener.
Grandson Albert reported that his grandfather told him Kitchener needed to know who were the arm suppliers to the forces of Al-Mahdi's successor, Khalifa Abdullahi. Yitzhak, aged 38, agreed to go undercover and pretended to be an arab with a caravan of goods for the Khalifa. In return for the donations of goods, Khalifa gave Yitzhak two Sudanese slaves, a couple aged 3 and 4.
Once Yitzhak uncovered the source of arms were Egyptian officers, he returned to General Kitchener with the information and was rewarded with lands in the fertile region of Aljazira (The Island), not far from Wadi Madani.
The girl slave died aged 16, but the boy stayed with the Anbar family in Egypt until he was 30 years of age, when he was found a job as a porter at a local bank in Cairo. It is said the servants son grew to attend university and worked at the same bank where his father had worked as a porter.
Grandaughter Eugenie remembers being at the Country Club of Bani-Swef, south of Cairo, and being formally saluted by veterans of the Sudan War once it transpired that she was a granddaughter of Yithak. Clearly Yotzhak was admired by members of the Anglo-Egyptian forces.
He would frequently visit his niece in the Sudan and the family in Khartoum had a cupboard named Yitzhak in his honor.
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Abt 1860 - Abt 1942 (~ 82 years)
