One of the wildest rescue stories in Israel’s history took a decade and a half to carry out. From 1977 to 1991, tens of thousands of Ethiopian Jews left their country of origin for Israel. The government of Israel, in collaboration with various worldwide organizations, carried out this effort in a series of dramatic airlifts and clandestine operations, literally searching for the Jewish refugees amidst the seas of people waiting in the Sudanese desert to be saved from hunger and thirst…
