Shlomo Hillel
| Shlomo Hillel | |
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| Date of birth | 23 April 1923 |
| Place of birth | Baghdad, Mandatory Iraq |
| Year of aliyah | 1934 |
| Knessets | 2, 3, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 |
| Faction represented in Knesset | |
| 1952–1959 | Mapai |
| 1969–1991 | Alignment |
| 1991–1992 | Labor Party |
| Ministerial roles | |
| 1969–1977 | Minister of Police |
| 1977 | Minister of Internal Affairs |
| Other roles | |
| 1959–1961 | Ambassador to Guinea |
| 1961–1963 | Ambassador to Ivory Coast, Upper Volta, Dahomey and Niger |
| 1984–1988 | Speaker of the Knesset |
Shlomo Hillel (Hebrew: שלמה הלל, born 23 April 1923) is an Iraqi-born Israeli diplomat and politician who served as Speaker of the Knesset, Minister of Police and Minister of Internal Affairs. He was also an ambassador to several countries in Africa.
Born in Baghdad in Iraq, Hillel immigrated to Mandate Palestine with his family in 1934 at the age of eleven. After graduating from the Herzliya Hebrew High School in Tel Aviv, he underwent agricultural training in kibbutz Degania Alef, and later Pardes Hana. Hillel was secretary of a Hebrew Scouts group which later established Kibbutz Ma'agan Michael. In 1945, Hillel and his colleagues worked at a Haganah munitions factory disguised as a laundry facility in the basement of the Ayalon Institute in Rehovot. He studied political science, economics and public administration at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He married Temima, with whom he has two children, a son and a daughter, and currently lives in Ramat Denya in Jerusalem.
In 1946, Hillel flew to Baghdad on an Iraqi passport and remained there for one year. He visited Baghdad again in 1950 to negotiate the mass immigration of the Jews of Iraq, 120,000 of whom were airlifted to Israel in Operation Ezra and Nehemiah between 1950 and 1952. On these trips, he disguised himself as either a Frenchman or an Englishman. The airlift was made possible through the cooperation of Iran, which was a close ally of Israel at the time.
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