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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.
Oct 24, 2018 · Posing as Christian Ethiopian refugees from the Ethiopian Civil War, Jews began to arrive in the refugee camps in Sudan and were taken to Israel. Later on, Ethiopia’s fragile government forbade the immigration, and the rest of the operations had to be conducted in secret.
Operation Moses (Hebrew: מִבְצָע מֹשֶׁה, Mivtza Moshe) was the covert evacuation of Ethiopian Jews (known as the "Beta Israel" community or the derogatory "Falashas") [1] from Sudan during a civil war that caused a famine in 1984.
Feb 29, 2020 · Mossad switched to airlifts, flying Beta Israel out from a disused British airstrip, although this only drew more attention, and the operatives found themselves in a series of close calls.
Oct 24, 2020 · The story of Operation Brothers actually dated back to 1977 and the election of Prime Minister Menachem Begin. Reports came into Israel that Ethiopian Jews had started fleeing the civil war and famine in their homeland, many heading to neighboring Sudan where they were being housed in refugee camps.
May 31, 2024 · This timeline chronicles some of the major events that shaped Israeli-Palestinian relations within the past three decades — from the 1993 Oslo peace agreement to the Hamas terror attack on...
Aug 16, 2020 · In an international operation, later called Operation Moses, thousands of Beta Israel were rescued and brought to Israel between November 21, 1984 and January 5, 1985. In Israel, state agencies, social workers sought to integrate the refugees into a new life in Israel.
