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  1. Oct 12, 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...

  2. Jan 20, 2022 · The sudden end of Operation Moses in 1985 stranded hundreds of Ethiopian Jews — all of whom had risked their lives walking for weeks through the desert to arrive at the operation’s pickup point —...

  3. Oct 24, 2018 · The Beta Israel exodus to Israel began in the early 1980s, after a coup in the Ethiopian government led to the death of 2500 Jews, directly followed by Ethiopia forbidding the practice of Judaism and the teaching of Hebrew.

  4. 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.

  5. 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...

  6. 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.

  7. May 24, 2015 · Initially the Israeli secret service Mossad organised their immigration through refugee camps in Sudan. This resulted in the arrival of about 7,000 Ethiopian Jews in Israel.