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Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/21/obituaries/shlomo-hillel-dead.html
Shlomo Hillel Helped 120,000 Jews Flee Iraq
(New York Times) Clay Risen - Shlomo Hillel, a Baghdad-born Israeli operative who in the late 1940s and early '50s used bribes, fake visas and a network of smugglers to move more than 120,000 Jews from Iraq to Israel, died on Feb. 8 at 97. He was 23 when the Haganah sent him undercover to Iraq where, disguised as an Arab, he helped lay the groundwork for migration.