I did not know that my old friend and member of our community , seu Isaac Bendayan had spent his childhood in Iquitos , Peru. He told me about living as a Jew in a very remoted place in Amazon. His family came from Morroco, went to Manaus and on to Iquitos following the rubber boom. He told me the Peruvians did not like Jews and one day a group grabbed him, hanged him upside down in a tree and started to torture him for being a Jew. He was saved but the family went back to Manaus and then he came to Belem. Mr. Bendayan is maybe the very few who can still talk in Hakitia with me and was truly a joy to talk to him. Tonight we celebrated Yom Haatzmaut, Amazonian style and I had the honor to sing Hatikva and other pearls of our music.