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מרדכי בן פורת

Region: Bagdad (Irak), puis Israël (Or Yehuda, Tel-Aviv)

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Born in Baghdad (original name Murad), sent to Iraq in 1949 to organize clandestine aliyah; he coordinated with Shlomo Hillel Operation Ezra and Nehemiah which brought ~110,000 Jews from Iraq to Israel. Arrested then escaped, he later became a deputy and minister, and founded the Centre for the Heritage of Babylonian Judaism.

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