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In July 1966, Khatoun took Ari and his sisters, Claris, Evon, and Stella, to Israel, where Stella and Ari were enrolled at the American International School in Kfar Smaryahu. | Baghdad, Iraq |
Khatoun is the mother of Ari Ben-Menashe. She was an affluent Iraq Jew who married Gourdji in Baghdad in 1945 and settled in Tehran, Iran. In late 1950 and early 1951, she visited Israel with her husband to explore the possibility of moving there.1
In July 1966, Khatoun took Ari Ben-Menashe and his sisters, Claris, Evon, and Stella, to Israel, where Stella and Ari Ben-Menashe were enrolled at the American International School in Kfar Smaryahu. Five years later, Khatoun and her husband moved from Tehran to Israel.1
During Ari Ben-Menashe imprisonment, Khatoun was the only family member who did not abandon him, despite being hassled and threatened by the Israel government.1
Footnotes
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Ben-Menashe, Ari. Profits of War: Inside the Secret U.S.-Israeli Arms Network. Sheridan Square Press, 1992 (TrineDay reprint, 2015). ↩︎