Throughout Jewish history, there have been three luminaries who brought exiled Babylonian Jews back to their ancestral homeland en masse: the prophets Jeremiah and Ezra, and Ben-Porat.
Ben-Porat was a visionary: a true public servant who served four terms in the Knesset, was awarded the Israel Prize, and who founded the Babylonian Jewry Heritage Center in Or Yehuda (est. 1973) and the Museum of Babylonian Jewry (est. 1988).