Mordechai Ben Porat

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Photograph by David Blumenfeld

Mordechai Ben Porat

IRAQ

RAMAT GAN, ISRAEL

Born in 1923, Mordechai Ben Porat became a Zionist activist in Baghdad. He was an undercover emissary for the Mossad L’Aliyah Bet who assisted Jews escaping to Iran, and helped organize Operation Ezra and Nehemiah.