The end of exile: Iraqi Jew recalls escape from Baghdad 70 years ago

As Babylonian Jewry Heritage Center prepares to mark 70th anniversary of Operation Ezra and Nehemiah, Baruch Meiri, 80, recalls how him and 120,000 others fled to Israel from persecution in a mass Aliyah wave

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