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I wish the tag line for this book said something other than “The True Story of Mossad’s Fake Holiday Resort”, because the resort doesn’t enter the book until about halfway through. Just a tiny quibble; this nonfiction account of Mossad’s efforts to secretly transport Ethiopian Jews to Israel is excellent and thoroughly researched. This is such an inspiring story of great risk, danger, and expense undertaken to save a persecuted minority. The beginning was a little bit dry, and occasionally it was hard to keep track of all the different names bandied about, but once the rescue efforts got going, I couldn’t put the book down.
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This is the story of Israelis smuggled thousands of Ethopian Jews our of Sudan into Israel. It recounts multiple operations of how by sea, air and other methods Israeli intelligence risked their lives to save others. I will preface by saying that I'm not a huge non fiction reader but this was a well researched story. That said while there was a lot of background on the Ethopian Jews history I would have liked to have better understood why the Ethopian Jews wanted to leave in the first place and why Israel was involved. I also would have liked to have known more about the day to life at the resort in Arous under which thousands were smuggled out by sea and air under the noses of the guests staying there. But overall a great recount of the history and the challenges faced to bring Ethopian Jews to Israel.
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Red Sea Spies chronicles the little known Mossad mission "Operation Brothers" wherein Jewish Ethiopians who fled to Sudan were brought to Israel. I was not familiar with Israel's history surrounding their African neighbors during the 40s-80s, and found the context to be enlightening. This is both fact and narrative driven, in the vein of Argo, but a little less gripping. I was really moved to read about the sacrifice the Ethiopians made and their willingness to walk to Israel if need be. The sacrifice of the Mossad agents and others who willingly gave time and money to rescue the Beta Jews was astounding! I was initially drawn to the book in hopes that it would have a lot of detail about the fake diving resort, which it didn't. Most of the book focuses on the prep work and the inner working of Mossad in the operation. I would be interested to learn more about Operation Moses and Solomon after this!