Mordechai Ben Porat
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.