Recently I discovered two books containing copies of marine insurance policies from the years 1758-1762 (Amsterdam City Archives SAA 557: Archief van de Assurantiebezorgers De Vos en Zoon, #24 and 25). Initially they caught my attention, because I found insured shipments by the company of Mordechaij and Jacob Italiaander & Sons (mainly tobacco to the Scandinavian countries) and by Hartogh van Embden and Jacobus Benedictus (books and wine to many European countries, Surinam and Curaçao), all connected in some way to the familiy tree of Abraham Levi Vitoria aka Italiaander (third and fourth generations). At least two other Jewish merchants appear in these books: Jahacob Texeira de Mattos, but most prominently Jacob Nunes Henriques, merchant in diamonds and pearls, who insured over 110 shipments in those five years (with a total value of about 350,000 guilders). His main trading partners were Moses Vita Cassuto and Sabato di Samuel Cassuto in Florence, but he also had contacts in London, Vienna, Pisa, Mantua, Curaçao, Antwerp, Alexandria and Constantinople. Four of these insurance contracts stand out, because they are for shipments of money from Constantinople to Jerusalem and Hebron, "to be handed out" in those places. Names of ships are mentioned and also of individuals who were to deliver the money (different persons for each year): SAA 557, #24, pages 1333, 1434, 149, and #25, page 475, always in September or October of the years 1758-1761. These all correspond to entries in the financial administration of the Portuguese community of Amsterdam regarding yearly donations in the years 5518-5521 (SAA 334, #182, pages 21, 89, 158 and 218). In these entries the responsibility for these specific donations is indeed given to Jacob Nunes Henriques, who apparently subsequently insured the shipment of money for the journey between Constantinople and the "Terra Santa". For year 5522 I also found an entry in the archives of the Portugese community for a donation, but in this case no corresponding insurance policy. The basis of these donations are bequests by the Pereira family. In the archives of the Portuguese community a lot of information can be found about the "eternal" usufruct of a bequest of 40,000 guilders that Jacob Pereira (in 1695) gave to the rabbinic schools in Jerusalem and Hebron that he founded himself (SAA 334 - numbers 791, 792, 793A, 793B). This usufruct was administered by the Mahamad and the financial records of these yearly donations can be found as well, as stated above (e.g., in 334, #182). Moses Vita Cassuto, an Italian Jew from Florence, visited those rabbinic schools in 1734 and reported that this yearly donation was their most important source of income. Moses wrote a diary in Italian during his travels: 1733-1735 (Egypt and Palestine) and 1741-1743 (England and Holland). This is the very same Moses Vita Cassuto that was one of the main trading partners of Jacob Nunes Henriques during the years 1758-1762, based on the information found in the insurance contracts. The original bequest by Jacob Pereira from 1695 explicitly states that the "Insurance premium" will be deducted from the yearly donation, so insurance already played some role from the very start.