Shlomo Hillel

Shlomo Hillel

שלמה הלל

Politician and diplomat · 1923–2021

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Baghdad-born emissary who worked secretly to bring the Jews of Iraq to Israel and helped arrange Operation Ezra and Nehemiah. He went on to serve as an ambassador, a government minister, and Speaker of the Knesset from 1984 to 1988.

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