The book "Operation Mural - A Dangerous Mission in Casablanca" documents a brave Mossad operation in the summer of 1961. The exciting, and sometimes blood-curdling, story of the rescue of 530 Jewish children from Morocco to Israel through a summer camp in Switzerland, is told by our man in Casablanca - David Littman.

"I think that saving 530 children, it seems to me, is the most moving experience a person may have. It is said: 'Anyone who saves one soul is as if he saved an entire world,' but when you save 530 children it is truly unforgettable. I wish to express on behalf of our people, our recognition of your courage, your wisdom and your determination under particularly difficult conditions at a time when our ties [in Morocco] were particularly weak."

President Shimon Peres

"David Littman was an extraordinary figure: tall, authoritative, elegant, self-confident and very courageous, physically and politically. This book tells about some of that courage, which he underplayed and presented only as a role-playing, almost like in a movie, in the secret and extraordinary rescue of 530 Jewish children from Casablanca. But his role there was more important, and required more courage than the character played by Humphrey Bogart in the famous film 'Casablanca'. He happened to play a heroic role a year before the first James Bond film appeared in 1962."

Prof. Michael Curtis, Emeritus Professor of Political Science, Rutgers University

"In the case of the rescue operations, very often, people who were recruited for these operations were not members of the institution, but in many cases volunteers. The risk of conducting an operation of this kind was very great, but it was also a great, very great risk that those who volunteered took upon themselves, and one such volunteer was David Gerald Littman, who had no experience in intelligence operations."

Ephraim Halevi, head of the Mossad in 1998-2002

David G. Littman (1933-2012), was a British historian and human rights activist at the UN headquarters in Geneva. He wrote, together with his wife Giselle Litman ('Bat Yaor'), important and groundbreaking essays on the plight of Jews and non-Jewish communities in the Arab world. A new Hebrew edition of his book "A Thousand Years of Exile in the West: Jews under the Rule of Islam - Sources and Documents (1912-997)" was recently published by the Bar-Ilan University Press. David Littman commanded the Mossad's Operation Mural in Casablanca, Morocco in 1961, as told in this book.