About Jacob Valero
Lived 1813 – 1874 (aged 60–61). Jacob Valero was a banker.
Jacob Valero (1813–1874) was the founder of the first private bank in Palestine, Jacob Valero & Company.
In 1839, Jacob (Ya'akov) Valero appeared in Jewish communal records as a ritual slaughterer of the Sephardi community in Jerusalem. In 1849, he was described as a "talmid hakham" (scholar). In 1835, his profession was listed as "moneychanger." He opened his bank in 1848 in the Old City of Jerusalem and managed it until his death. The Valero Bank financed the building of a railway from Jaffa to Jerusalem.
The Bank financed the building of the Prince Sergei Hostel in the Russian Compound and handled the money for Kaiser Wilhelm's grand entrance into Jerusalem in 1898.
Valero was an Ottoman subject until 1860, and then became a subject of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. The bank closed in 1915.
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Who was Jacob Valero?
Jewish banker
When was Jacob Valero born?
Jacob Valero was born in 1813.
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Jacob Valero died in 1874.
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Jacob Valero was a banker.
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