thousands of secret messages to and from Mossad operatives in Tehran, Paris, Tel Aviv and Baghdad. The messages conveyed by Saig, Marcus, and others often under the noses of the Iraqi government but – unknown to it relayed information about political and security issues – in Iraq, Jewish fugitives headed towards and a myriad of EretzYisrael, operational instructions. و و و تحت – و لا As a woman, Marcus an anomaly in the Zionist network. One of the wasn’t earliest female activists, for instance, Raya Moallem*, was an instructor who hid weapons and Hebrew books and materials on in a hidden EretzYisrael space beneath her living room floor. But the movement was so controversial even within families that she and her siblings and mother hid her involvement, and that of a sister and brother, as well as their knowledge of the hidden cache, from her father. When the crackdown on the movement forced hundreds of activists to flee in 1949, Moallem escaped Iraqas a teenager through Basra to Iran, and then to Israel, with only the clothes on her back.
thousands of secret messages to and from Mossad operatives in Tehran, Paris, Tel Aviv and Baghdad. The messages conveyed by Saig, Marcus, and others – often under the noses of the Iraqi government but unknown to it – relayed information about political and security issues in Iraq, Jewish fugitives headed towards EretzYisrael, and a myriad of operational instructions. و و – تحت و و لا As a woman, Marcus wasn’t an anomaly in the Zionist network. One of the earliest female activists, for instance, Raya Moallem*, was an instructor who hid weapons and Hebrew books and materials on EretzYisrael in a hidden space beneath her living room floor. But the movement was so controversial even within families that she and her siblings and mother hid her involvement, and that of a sister and brother, as well as their knowledge of the hidden cache, from her father. When the crackdown on the movement forced hundreds of activists to flee in 1949, Moallem escaped Iraqas a teenager through Basra to Iran, and then to Israel, with only the clothes on her back.
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