By Stephen Spector
ISBN-10: 0195177827
ISBN-13: 9780195177824
ISBN-10: 019530716X
ISBN-13: 9780195307160
"Operation Solomon" used to be the most impressive rescue efforts in glossy historical past, within which greater than 14,000 Ethiopian Jews have been airlifted to Israel in little greater than an afternoon. during this riveting quantity, Stephen Spector bargains the definitive account of this significant tale, in accordance with over two hundred interviews and unique entry to private records.
Written with the speed and immediacy of a singular, here's the dramatic tale of the rescue of the dark-skinned Jews of Ethiopia. Spector recounts how 20,000 Jews have been willingly lured from their ancestral villages to Addis Ababa, watching for to be taken quick from there to the Holy Land. as an alternative, they turned pawns in a fight among the Israeli govt and Ethiopia's repressive dictator, who attempted to coerce Israel into promoting him guns he wanted in a wasting struggle opposed to insurgent armies. within the ensuing stalemate, the Jewish group was once pressured to stay for almost a 12 months in squalid hovels, liable to the hazards of the town, together with crime and HIV. Worse but, the upcoming cave in of Addis Ababa, with the rebels final in at the capital, raised the specter of bloody highway scuffling with or perhaps a genocidal assault at the Jews, a small minority in a kingdom that's basically Christian and Muslim. Spector describes the annoying negotiations between Israelis, Ethiopians, and americans, which turned more and more pressing as time ran low and the risk fixed. And he highlights the key bargains and surprising setbacks that just about aborted the venture on the 11th hour, whilst Israeli jets sat at the runway in Ethiopia, ready to take the Jews to the land for which that they had yearned for generations.
Recounting the total tale for the 1st time, Operation Solomon is a stirring account of a heroic rescue accomplished within the face of daunting odds.
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10 Relations between the United States and Ethiopia cooled when a military junta called the Derg deposed Haile Selassie in the Revolution of 1974. The emperor had become incompetent to cope with the internal and external threats that Ethiopia faced. Washington came to disdain the new regime, however, and specifically Mengistu, who ultimately emerged as its leader, as unreconstructed Stalinists. 11 President Carter took a properly harsh view of the Derg's appalling human rights record and halted military aid to Ethiopia in 1977, when the Soviets switched sides in the Horn of Africa and armed the Ethiopians against 22 • JULY 1988-JANUARY 1990 the Somalis.
For the first several years the group was small enough to meet in Berger's home. Then it grew into a national organization. They raised money through speaking engagements, mostly in synagogues, and direct mailing campaigns. 43 Berger and his colleagues, including Lenhoff and Nate Shapiro, had been frustrated by some Israeli leaders' overt indifference to the Ethiopian Jews in the mid-1970s. They were further disturbed by what they saw as Israel's subsequent reluctance or even hostility regarding the aliyah.
In Operation Ezra and Nehemiah in 1950, Israel had brought in 121,512 Jews from Iraq and Kurdistan. More than 200,000 Soviet and Eastern European Jews had come to Israel in the 1970s, and in 1989 the largest aliyah of all began, from the Soviet Union. 68 The comparatively diminutive Ethiopian immigration was carried out while Israel's absorptive capacities were straining under the burden of this huge Soviet influx. Much of Israel's attention at the time was concentrated on the challenges of the first intifada, the civil resistance and violent protests in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, which Israel had seized from Jordan in the 1967 Six-Day War.
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