Operation Babylon - Hardcover

Hillel, Shlomo

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0385235976 ISBN 13: 9780385235976

Publisher: Doubleday, 1987

Synopsis

Recounts the massive emigration of Jews from Iraq to Palestine between 1947 and 1952 and describes the political background of the move

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Language Notes:

Text: English, Hebrew (translation)

From Publishers Weekly:

The author, an Iraqi-born Jew (currently Speaker of the Knesset in Israel), played a major role in arranging the early '50s airlift that brought 125,000 Iraqi immigrants to Israel, at the same time ending the exile of the oldest Jewish community in the world. Hillel recounts the many tight spots and close calls he experienced as an undercover Israeli agent working to strike a deal with Iraq and open the way for the exodus, and how by luck and fancy footwork he was repeatedly able to extricate himself. (At one point, posing as a British business executive, he's invited to the house of the Iraqi prime minister and finds himself confronted by a relative he hasn't seen in years who he fears may inadvertently give him away.) The book includes little-known material about the persecution of Iraqi Jews in a country where, as Hillel puts it, "the death of a Jew was a cause for exultation." Photos.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Doubleday
• Publication date: 1987
• ISBN 10: 0385235976
• ISBN 13: 9780385235976
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 301