Mivtza Moshe

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Mivtza Moshe is the Hebrew name for Operation Moses, the 1984–1985 covert Israeli airlift that rescued thousands of Ethiopian Jews and brought them to Israel.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Israeli operation
airlift operation
covert operation
military operation
aircraftUsed Israeli aircraft
civilian airliners
alsoKnownAs Operation Moshe
arrivalPoint Ben-Gurion Airport
beneficiary Beta Israel community
linked to: Ethiopian Jews

Ethiopian Jews
causeOfTermination public disclosure of the operation
confidentialityStatusAtTheTime secret
context Ethiopian famine of the mid-1980s
civil war in Ethiopia
country Israel
departurePoint airfields in Sudan
endDate 1985-01-05
estimatedNumberOfPeopleRescued about 8000
exposedBy media leaks
followedBy Operation Joshua
Operation Sheba
hasEnglishName Operation Moses
hasHebrewName מבצע משה
location Ethiopia
Israel
Sudan
method airlift
nature covert
operator Israel Defense Forces
Mossad
State of Israel
linked to: Israel
organizedBy Government of Israel
organizedWithCooperationOf Sudanese government officials
United States
precededBy informal rescue efforts of Ethiopian Jews
purpose immigration of Ethiopian Jews to Israel
rescue of Ethiopian Jews
relatedTo Aliyah of Ethiopian Jews
Ethiopian Jewish immigration to Israel
linked to: Aliyah to Israel
result thousands of Ethiopian Jews brought to Israel
startDate 1984-11-21
subjectOf Israeli immigration policy analyses
historical studies on Ethiopian Jewry
timePeriod 1984
1985

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Operation Moses alsoKnownAs Mivtza Moshe