In April 1950, an activist of Mossad LeAliyah Bet, Shlomo Hillel, using the alias Richard Armstrong, flew from Amsterdam to Baghdad as a representative of the American charter company Near East Air Transport, to organize an airlift of Iraq Jews to Cyprus.
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His burial was attended by over 4,000 mourners including, then Speaker of the Knesset, Shlomo Hillel and held at the Givat Shaul Cemetery.