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Businessman who rescued the last Jews of Aleppo was inspired by Yad Vashem

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November 5, 2015 06:01
Moti Kahana supporting the Syrian rebels outside the White House

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Sandy Rashty,

Sandy Rashty

2 min read

Moti Kahana is not your average businessman.

He has considered turning the story of his life — from Jerusalem foster home to multi-million pound fortune in New York — into a book, but for the moment the 47-year-old is focusing his attention on the Middle East.

His mission to extract the last Jews of Aleppo began with a trip to Yad Vashem five years ago.

There, he discovered that the 1941 massacre of 14,000 Jews in Iaşi — his family's city of origin — had not been ordered by the Nazis but by local government officials.

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