![]() The relationship has proved mutually profitable. ![]() Bribes were paid and covert contacts were made by the United States to the president of Sudan to ensure safe passage to the Holy Land.Ĭooperation between American and Israeli intelligence dates to a meeting in May 1951 in Washington between Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion, U.S. ![]() This history details the cooperative efforts of the CIA and the Mossad in finally rescuing more than 20,000 Ethiopian Jews. Begin was prime minister and Colonel Mengistu was in control in Addis Adaba. The emperor, as a matter of national pride, refused to allow the Jews to emigrate.īy 1977 things began to change. ![]() The previous government had had excellent covert ties with then-Emperor Haile Selassie. Much in the book is new, such as Prime Minister Menachem Begin's dedicated efforts to rescue Ethiopian Jews from their poverty and oppression and arrange for their passage to the Land of Israel. ![]()
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