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          Jacob Ballas.

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          Remembering Jacob Ballas (d. 18 January 2000)

          Jacob Ballas

          (b. 21 January 1921, Iraq – d.

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        5. The Jacob Ballas Children's Garden is the first garden in Asia dedicated to children.

          6. 18 January 2000, Singapore)

          “I realised since I was a child that I belong to this place. I belong to Singapore. This is my home, this is my life and this is my graveyard”

          Jacob Ballas 

           

          Since the late 1920s, Singapore was Jacob Ballas’s home after moving from Labuan, then a British colonial outpost in North Borneo.

          His father, Shua, imparted important lessons on self-reliance to the young Jacob whilst the family was residing in a rented two-storey terrace house at 19 Wikie Road, an area populated mostly by poor Orthodox Jews.

           

          This appears to be an almost natural choice, as Jacob was born to Orthodox Baghdadi Jewish parents, Shua and Grace Ballas, in Amara, Iraq on 21 January 1921.

           

          His childhood poverty as well as his education at St Andrew’s School drove his determination to succeed and broaden his perspectives as a member of t