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Operation Solomon - The Daring Rescue of the Ethiopian Jews (Paperback, New ed)
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Operation Solomon - The Daring Rescue of the Ethiopian Jews (Paperback, New ed)
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"Operation Solomon" was one of the most remarkable rescue efforts
in modern history, in which more than 14,000 Ethiopian Jews were
airlifted to Israel in little more than a day. Now, in this
riveting volume, Stephen Spector offers the definitive account of
this incredible story, based on over 200 interviews and exclusive
access to confidential documents. Written with the pace and
immediacy of a novel, here is the dramatic story of the rescue of
the dark-skinned Jews of Ethiopia. Spector recounts how 20,000 Jews
were willingly lured from their ancestral villages to Addis Ababa,
expecting to be taken quickly from there to the Holy Land. Instead,
they became pawns in a struggle between the Israeli government and
Ethiopia's repressive dictator, who tried to coerce Israel into
selling him weapons he needed in a losing war against rebel armies.
In the resulting stalemate, the Jewish community was forced to live
for nearly a year in squalid hovels, vulnerable to the dangers of
the city, including crime and HIV. Worse yet, the imminent collapse
of Addis Ababa, with the rebels closing in on the capital, raised
the threat of bloody street fighting or even a genocidal attack on
the Jews, a small minority in a nation that is primarily Christian
and Muslim. Spector describes the tense negotiations among
Israelis, Ethiopians, and Americans, which became increasingly
urgent as time ran low and the danger mounted. And he highlights
the secret deals and sudden setbacks that nearly aborted the
mission at the eleventh hour, even as Israeli jets sat on the
runway in Ethiopia, waiting to take the Jews to the land for which
they had yearned for generations. Recounting the full story for the
first time, Operation Solomon is a stirring account of a heroic
rescue achieved in the face of daunting odds.
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