A.
Apart from being a towering leader of the Cochin Jewish community, Salem was a founder-me.
However, he chose to stay back in his beloved state of Kerala.
Salem, born into the Paradesi Congregation of Jews in the erstwhile Kingdom of Cochin (now part of the southern Indian state of Kerala), was a lawyer, labour union organizer, ardent Indian nationalist and political leader, Zionist and the man responsible for the mass aliyah or emigration of the Cochin Jews to Israel in the 1950s.
B.
A