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Jan 20, 2022 · Operation Moses, for example, depended on secrecy; a fragile agreement with Sudan allowed Israel to fly members of Beta Israel out, but once Israeli journalists broke the story, Sudan’s Arab...
Dec 3, 2020 · Ethiopian Jews were first brought to Israel from refugee camps in Sudan in a series of secret operations in the early 1980s by Israel's Mossad intelligence agency on the orders of the then...
Dec 3, 2020 · Ethiopian Jews were first brought to Israel from refugee camps in Sudan in a series of secret operations in the early 1980s by Israel's Mossad intelligence agency on the orders of the then...
Jun 21, 2021 · Before the Mossad’s rescue mission, thousands of Ethiopian Jews were fleeing persecution and certain death in Ethiopia on foot to refugee camps in Sudan, with nothing but the clothes on their backs. The conditions they faced were brutal: intense heat, starvation, disease, and even robbery.
Beta Israel began to arrive in large numbers and the Mossad was unable to evacuate them in time. Due to poor conditions in the camps, many refugees died of disease and hunger. Of these victims, it is estimated that between 2,000 and 5,000 were Beta Israel. [17]
Oct 24, 2018 · This was the start of various operations conducted by Israel to rescue the Beta Israel community. In the beginning, Aliyah (Hebrew for ascending, immigrating to Israel) activists and Mossad agents operating in Sudan called the Jews to come to Sudan and informed them that from Sudan via Europe they would be taken to Israel.
Dec 2, 2020 · The IDF and Mossad began to bring Ethiopian Jews to safety in Israel through numerous operations, and The Jewish Agency welcomed and housed the refugees in Absorption Centers upon their arrival in Israel.
