Mar Shimun Benyamin had arranged for some 3,500 Assyrians to reside in the district of Khoi.
A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm, a 1996 policy recommendation report presented to Benyamin Netanyahu, the then-Prime Minister of Israel
Others from the Indian Subcontinent who came for the 2012 Book Fair:- Anupam Kher, Arundhati Roy, Benyamin, Deepti Naval, H. M. Naqvi, Namita Gokhale, Pankaj Mishra, Paul Zachariah, Samrat Upadhyay, Sethu, Shehan Karunatilaka, Tahmima Anam, Vidya Shah and William Dalrymple.
In March, 1918, Mar Benyamin along with 150 of his bodyguards were assassinated by Simko Shikak (Ismail Agha Shikak), a Kurdish agha, in the town of Salmas (Persia) under a truce flag (see Assyrian Genocide).
William Ishaya, was born to Assyrian parents Ishaya Odisho and Ester Odisho (Daughter of the late Rev. Odisho Bet-Benyamin of St. Matthew Church in Sarsing, Northern Iraq).