Ben Porat, Mordechai, 1923-2022

found: Le-Bagdad ṿa-ḥazarah, c1996:title page (Mordekhai Ben Porat) title page verso (Mordechai Ben Porat [in rom.]) page 348 (born 1923) cover page 4 (born in Iraq; imm. to Israel in 1945; officer and politician)

found: English Wikipedia WWW, viewed June 22, 2022(Mordechai Ben-Porat, an Israeli politician who served as a member of the Knesset in two spells between 1965 until 1984, and as Minister without Portfolio from July 1982 until January 1984. During his four terms in the Knesset, he represented five different parties. Born Murad Murad in Baghdad, Iraq to a Jewish family on September 12, 1923, Ben-Porat was the oldest of eleven children of Regina and Nessim Yehezkel Murad; when he reached school age, his father changed the family name to Kazzazz (meaning "silk trader," which was the profession of Ben-Porat's grandfather) Ben-Porat immigrated to Mandatory Palestine in 1945. He joined the Haganah in 1947 and fought in the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. He helped organise the mass immigration of Iraqi Jews between 1949 and 1951, during which he was arrested four times by the Iraqi authorities. He later studied political science at the Tel Aviv adjunct of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and administration at Tel Aviv University. He died on January 03, 2022 at the age of 98)