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

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 missions 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….