كيف كانت إسرائيل تخترق الأجواء السودانية في الشرق. (توجد رشاوي أيضا)

(The Israelis were studying intelligence on the Sudanese radar system. Eventually, they found a small

Hole in that system, only partially covered by Egyptian and Saudi Arabian radar, in the area of

Rosal-Hadaribah, a mountainous region near the border between Egypt and Sudan, where a

Low-level flight could get through without being detected. )



Source: By way of Deception. Page 298

Victor Ostrovsky and Claire Hoy

While all this was going on, the other Mossad operation, involving
the Belgian charter, was also working, with Mossad officials
paying enormous sums to bribe Sudanese officials. One of those,
General Omer Mohammed Al-Tayeb, a former vice-president who
became chief of security for Sudan under President al-Nemery,

Operation Moses
THEY WERE ALL there: foreign diplomats escaping the oppressive
heat of Khartoum; tourists from right across Europe anxious to
learn diving techniques in the Red Sea, or enjoy escorted tours of
the Nubian Desert; and senior Sudanese officials, all relaxing in
the newly constructed tourist resort 75 miles north of Port Sudan
across the sea from Mecca.
How were they to know it was a Mossad front? Indeed, on the
morning in early January 1985, when the 50 or so customers
woke up to find the staff had vanished — except for a few locals
left behind to serve breakfast — they still didn't know what had
happened. Few people know even today. As far as legitimate
tourists were concerned, the resort's European owners had gone
bankrupt, as the notes left behind claimed, though they were
assured of a full refund (and actually got it). The staff, either
Mossad or Israeli navy workers, had disappeared quietly during
the night, some by boat, others by air. They had left plenty of food
behind, along with four trucks to carry the tourists back to Port
Sudan.
But what happened at this camp is one of the great mass- escape
stories of history, a story only partially known to the world as
Operation Moses: the rescue of thousands of black Ethiopian
Jews, or Falashas, from drought-ravaged, war-torn Ethiopia, to
Israel.

288 BY WAY OF DECEPTION
Many stories, even books, have documented Israel's daring and
covert airlift of the Falashas out of refugee camps in Sudan and
Ethiopia. A Belgian-chartered Trans-European Airways Boeing
707 was used to fly them on a circuitous route from either
Khartoum or Addis Ababa, through either Athens, Brussels,
Rome, or Basel, then to Tel Aviv.
The stories — all fed by Mossad disinformation specialists — claim
that 12,000 black Ethiopian Jews were rescued in this short,
spectacular operation. In fact, about 18,000 were rescued, and
only about 5,000 of those by way of the publicly celebrated Belgian
charter. The rest came through the Red Sea "tourist resort."

* * *

At the turn of this century, there were several hundred thousand
Falashas in Ethiopia, but by the 1980s their numbers had
dwindled to at most 25,000, scattered mainly throughout the
country's remote northwestern Gondar province. For two
centuries, the Falashas had longed for the promised land, but it
wasn't until 1972 that they were officially recognized as Jews by
Israel. Sephardic Chief Rabbi Ovadia Yosef decreed that the
Falashas were "undoubtedly of the tribe of Dan," which made
them the inhabitants of the biblical land of Havileh, today's
southern Arabian peninsula. The Falashas believe in the Torah,
the basic Jewish scriptures; they're circumcised and observe the
Sabbath and the dietary laws. Ironically, one of the keys to the
rabbinate's conclusions that the Falashas are indeed Jews was the
fact that they do not observe Hanukkah. This festival celebrates
the victory of Judah the Maccabee over Antiochus IV in 167 B.C.,
after which the Temple was cleansed and Jewish worship restored.
But this was not part of the Falashas' history, because they had
left Israel with the Queen of Sheba long before, during Solomon's
reign.
As a result of the Chief Rabbinical Council's findings, a
government committee then decided that these Ethiopians were
covered by Israel's Law of Return, which allows all Jews
automatically to become citizens the moment they arrive in Israel
to live.

288 BY WAY OF DECEPTION
Many stories, even books, have documented Israel's daring and
covert airlift of the Falashas out of refugee camps in Sudan and
Ethiopia. A Belgian-chartered Trans-European Airways Boeing
707 was used to fly them on a circuitous route from either
Khartoum or Addis Ababa, through either Athens, Brussels,
Rome, or Basel, then to Tel Aviv.
The stories — all fed by Mossad disinformation specialists — claim
that 12,000 black Ethiopian Jews were rescued in this short,
spectacular operation. In fact, about 18,000 were rescued, and
only about 5,000 of those by way of the publicly celebrated Belgian
charter. The rest came through the Red Sea "tourist resort."

* * *

At the turn of this century, there were several hundred thousand
Falashas in Ethiopia, but by the 1980s their numbers had
dwindled to at most 25,000, scattered mainly throughout the
country's remote northwestern Gondar province. For two
centuries, the Falashas had longed for the promised land, but it
wasn't until 1972 that they were officially recognized as Jews by
Israel. Sephardic Chief Rabbi Ovadia Yosef decreed that the
Falashas were "undoubtedly of the tribe of Dan," which made
them the inhabitants of the biblical land of Havileh, today's
southern Arabian peninsula. The Falashas believe in the Torah,
the basic Jewish scriptures; they're circumcised and observe the
Sabbath and the dietary laws. Ironically, one of the keys to the
rabbinate's conclusions that the Falashas are indeed Jews was the
fact that they do not observe Hanukkah. This festival celebrates
the victory of Judah the Maccabee over Antiochus IV in 167 B.C.,
after which the Temple was cleansed and Jewish worship restored.
But this was not part of the Falashas' history, because they had
left Israel with the Queen of Sheba long before, during Solomon's
reign.
As a result of the Chief Rabbinical Council's findings, a
government committee then decided that these Ethiopians were
covered by Israel's Law of Return, which allows all Jews
automatically to become citizens the moment they arrive in Israel
to live.