Mordechai Ben-Porat, an Israeli leader who rescued Iraq's Je

The Baghdad-born Ben-Porat, who became a Knesset member and cabinet minister, left Iraq in 1945, only to return to organize the immigration to Israel – initially clandestinely and then openly – of 120,000 Iraqi Jews

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