How Israel Helped the U.S. Win the Cold War
It transmitted vital intelligence about Soviet military technology.
March 6, 2020
The Red Sea Diving Resort the Mossad Used to Bring Ethiopian Jews to Israel
The real story behind the Netflix movie.
In the 1980s, trying to help Jews fleeing war-torn Ethiopia make it to the Jewish state, the Mossad purchased an abandoned hotel on the Sudanese coast and turned it into a front for their operation. From there, the agents found Ethiopian Jews who had traveled, usually on foot, to Sudan, and then transported them to Israel. The story was told in fictionalized form in the Netflix film The Red Sea Diving Resort, but the journalist Raffi Berg has recently written a historical work about the affair, based on extensive research and interviews with the participants. He discusses the story in an interview with James Sorene:
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It’s Time for Egypt to Reject Conspiracy Theories and Embrace Israel
The pan-Arabist legacy of fatalism and anti-Semitism.
How a Master of Hebrew Fiction Made Peace with His East European Hometown
S.Y. Agnon’s “Mistake.”
The Red Sea Diving Resort the Mossad Used to Bring Ethiopian Jews to Israel
The real story behind the Netflix movie.
In a Region of France with Few Jews, Anti-Semites Attack Their Cemeteries
An epidemic of vandalism in the historic cradle of Ashkenazi Jewry.