 A more recent chief rabbi was Nissim Indibo, who died at the end of 1972.Other Damascus Rabbis are Mordechai Maslaton, Shaul Menaged and Zaki Assa.During the 19th, century the Jews of Damascus were several times made the victims of calumnies, the gravest being those of 1840 and 1860, in the reign of the sultan Abdülmecit I.