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Banai family

family of Israeli entertainers

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 5, 2026
Entity authorityQ12409670 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Banai family (Hebrew: משפחת בנאי) is an Israeli family of Iranian Jews known for a number of notable persons working in cinema, theater, music, and other kinds of entertainment.

History

The family of Rahamim Banai (Bana) emigrated from Shiraz, in 1880, to escape famine and diseases plaguing southwestern Persia at these times. The family was already among prominent musicians.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Banai family” as family of Israeli entertainers. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1880—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Banai, family and Israeli can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as family of Israeli entertainers. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 5, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q12409670. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1880.

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This entry incorporates text from “Banai family” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.