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Shlomo Hillel, who spearheaded mass aliyah of Iraqi Jews, dies at 97
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Feb 24, 2021
The legendary Shlomo Hillel – secret agent, Haganah officer, politician and diplomat – passed away at the age of 97.
By Yakir Benzion, United With Israel
Shlomo Hillel was only 11 years old when his family moved from Baghdad to Tel Aviv in 1934, and he went on to become one of the legendary builders of the modern State of Israel as a secret agent, diplomat and politician.
After working in a secret munitions factory supplying the Haganah – the precursor to the IDF – during World War II, Hillel was sent back to Iraq undercover on an Iraqi passport, where he used his fluent Arabic, bribes, fake visas and a network of smugglers to move more than 120,000 Jews from Iraq to Israel, the
Daring Exploits of the Man who Brought 120,000 Jews to Israel
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(JTA) Shlomo Hillel’s life spanned the length and breadth of Israel’s immigrant story and he played a critical role in many of its chapters.
Hillel, who died Feb. 8 at 97, helped smuggle Iraqi Jewish immigrants into pre-state British Mandate Palestine and then brought more in in the state’s first years. His family fled Iraq’s horrors and he married a woman fleeing Europe’s horrors. His son married an Ethiopian Israeli, whose aliya Hillel, as a minister in the government, greenlighted.
A New York Times obituary on Sunday detailed how Hillel, who was born in Baghdad, executed at least four undercover operations in the pre-and post-state years in various guises including as a British businessman to spirit out Iraqi Jews.