In the June nonpartisan blanket primary,he placed first,receiving approximately 21% of the votes cast,defeating all Democratic candidates,who split the Democratic vote in the district.[10]
Carr is Jewish.[15] His maternal grandfather,a relative of Baghdad rabbinical leader Abdallah Somekh,was arrested during widespread antisemitic persecution of Iraq's Jewish community during the time of the founding of the state of Israel in 1948. He was convicted in a show trials and sentenced to five years in prison.[15]
During Carr's Iraq War service,he helped lead an anti-terrorism team in missions throughout Iraq,prosecute terrorists who had attacked U.S soldiers in the Central Criminal Court of Iraq,and train Iraqi judges and lawyers on constitutional law and criminal defense. He also led Jewish services in the former presidential palace of Saddam Hussein in Baghdad,including by lighting a Hanukkah menorah in the first Hanukkah after the liberation of Baghdad in 2003.[16][17][15]
Carr's mother fled from Iraq to Israel,while his stepfather fled from Nazi-occupied Bulgaria to Palestine. Both later immigrated to the United States.[18] His biological father is second generation Irish and Italian descent.
↑ shanee (2023-10-02). "Elan S. Carr". IAC | Israeli American Council. Retrieved 2024-04-23.
↑ 118Stat.1282, 1284. "The head of the Office shall be the Special Envoy for Monitoring and Combating anti-Semitism (in this section referred to as the 'Special Envoy')."
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