In Salonika, there were 300 families among the richest who decided in 1686 to embrace Islam before the rabbinical authorities could react, their conversion already having been happily accepted by the Ottoman authorities.
En Tesalónica, 300 familias de entre as máis ricas da cidade optaron por abrazar o Islam en 1685, sen que as autoridades rabínicas puidesen protestar, xa que a conversión era ben vista polas autoridades otomás.