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On Wings of Eagles: The Secret Operation of the Ethiopean Exodus

On Wings of Eagles: The Secret Operation of the Ethiopean Exodus

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African HistoryIsrael & Palestine History

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ISBN10: 9652295698
ISBN13: 9789652295699
Publisher: Gefen Books
Published: Mar 20 2012
Pages: 352
Weight: 1.25
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.60
Language: English

With Ethiopia overrun by rebels, the Jews had left their villages in northern Ethiopia by the thousands to trek for weeks to the Sudan. There, in squalid refugee camps, untold numbers died of disease and malnutrition. Those left alive were motivated only by the desire to return to Zion. Starving, preyed-upon, and often separated from their families in heartbreaking ways, the refugees also faced stark cultural adjustments in Israel. When Israel was able to open an embassy in Ethiopia in January 1990, the author went to Addis Ababa, where his crowning achievement as the Jewish Agency's representative and Israeli consul was overseeing the immigration of over fourteen thousand Jews from the besieged city in the dramatic two-day Operation Solomon in May 1991. This modern-day Exodus story is a heartwarming tale of the love of one man for Ethiopian Jewry as he devoted himself to their struggle to go up to Jerusalem.

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