Jacob Valero
Banker, Deceased Person
1813 – 1874
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Who was Jacob Valero?
Jacob Valero was the founder of the first private bank in Palestine, Jacob Valero & Company.
In 1839, Jacob 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". 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.
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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