Red Sea Diving Resort: The holiday village run by spies - BBC
Under cover of darkness, agents drove 600 miles to refugee camps to collect "Beta Israel" (Ethiopian Jews) and transport them to the coast. The Heroic Journey: Beta Israel Rescate En El Mar Rojo
The mission evolved from sea-based rescues to complex airlifts as the number of refugees grew. Red Sea Diving Resort: The holiday village run
"Rescate en el Mar Rojo" (internationally known as The Red Sea Diving Resort ) refers to , a daring Mossad mission in the early 1980s that used a fake luxury hotel in Sudan to smuggle thousands of Ethiopian Jewish refugees to Israel. 🏨 The Front: Arous Holiday Village 🏨 The Front: Arous Holiday Village In 1981,
In 1981, Mossad operatives posing as Swiss entrepreneurs leased an abandoned Italian resort called . Location: 70km north of Port Sudan on the Red Sea coast.
Thousands walked over 300 miles from northern Ethiopia to Sudan through mountains and deserts.
Approximately 1,500 to 1,700 people died during the journey from starvation, illness, or attacks by bandits.