Israel's Mossad agents attempt to … From the resort, Mossad agents smuggled Ethiopian Jews to Israel. The original version of this story misstated The Red Sea Diving Resort’s connection to Mossad Exodus: The Daring Undercover Rescue of the Lost Jewish Tribe, by Gad Shimron. It was a risky move: At the time, Sudan, a Muslim majority country, was an enemy of Israel.The hotel was entirely staffed by Mossad agents. Israel's Prime Minister Menachem Begin wanted to rescue the Ethiopian Jews, who are also known as Beta Israel. Related: The Red Sea Diving Resort Review: Chris Evans Is A Big Damn Hero As with almost any take on a true story, The Red Sea Diving Resort uses the real-life Operation Brothers as its inspiration, but also takes some creative license in order to package it into a 130-minute movie that plays as a spy thriller that aims for something between Argo and Munich. Use of this site constitutes acceptance of our
Updated: August 9, 2019 12:26 PM ET | Originally published: August 1, 2019 9:50 AM EDT There definitely was a demand,” says Abbink.
“We seem to be closing the doors in their faces and many of them are losing their lives on their way to a better future.
“It’s a bit shrouded in mystery, but there are reports that a huge community lived in Ethiopia for ages, more than 1,500 years.
Photo: courtesy of Netflix. To evacuate them, Ari decides to perform a final refugee extraction by cargo plane with assistance from Walton Bowen, a Larger Mossad-led operations including Operation Brothers, and the later Operation Moses (1984-1985) and Operation Solomon (1991), were responsible for the arrival of an In 1981, Mossad agents scouted the Sudanese coastline and found 15 beachside villas that had been abandoned a decade earlier.
On weekends, though, the "We were shot at; I was arrested and interrogated by Sudanese security.
“We saw buildings with red tiled roofs – [but] we were in Sudan, we were not somewhere else.“We understood immediately the meaning of this. Directed by Gideon Raff. Shortly after the team's arrival in the Islamic country of Sudan, the brochures they had printed inspire actual tourists to begin arriving at the resort.
Elena Nicolaou. The premise of the film is inspired by a true story, yes. Some people even speak about millennia,” says Jon Abbink, a professor of governance and politics in Africa, specializing in Ethiopia, at Leiden University in the Netherlands.In the 1970s and 1980s, a combination of push factors in Ethiopia led to a big exodus of refugees from the Beta Israel community, as depicted in Amid the country’s descent into civil war beginning 1974, Ethiopian Jews became more prominent as While this scene appears to have added a touch of dramatic flair, Mossad agents certainly were instrumental in scouting out possible locations that could act as a cover to transport the refugees to safety, as well as eventually running the real-life resort. By I was sitting on my couch, watching something forgetWalking into the theatre to see Black Panther in February 2018 was the closest I’d come to going to church since, well, church.
Compassion would be the biggest thing that I hope people will take away.” Ahmed again visits the resort, and Rachel is forced to kill one of his men after the soldier discovers a group of refugees hiding there. Inspired by remarkable true life rescue missions, THE RED SEA DIVING RESORT is the incredible story of a group of international agents and brave Ethiopians who in the early 80s used a … All Rights Reserved. Although hosting guests was not originally part of the plan, Levinson realizes the tourists will provide cover for the team's operations, so the team runs the resort as a legitimate business while simultaneously evacuating refugees to a waiting Israeli ship off the coast.
They are released and return to the resort to find Levin awaiting them; he tells the group the mission has been compromised and that it is canceled. So, in 1982, the For a fee of $320,000, the Sudanese Tourist Corporation rented the resort to Israeli agents, who posed as a Swiss tourism company. Entertainment A new movie, Operation Brothers dates back to 1977, when Ethiopians began fleeing the war and famine in their homeland.
The perfect cover for moving people under the cover of darkness, saving thousands of lives in the process.The whole purpose of the mission was to smuggle Ethiopian Jews from refugee camps in Sudan (an enemy country) to Israel.They belonged to Beta Israel, a mysterious community whose origins are not fully understood, and the nature of the mission was so politically sensitive, that nobody could find out about it whether in Sudan or Israel.The operation was entrusted to Mossad agent ‘Dani’, who found the abandoned resort almost by chance as he scouted for possible landing beaches.“If we could evacuate people [from Sudan] by the Red Sea and have a boat coming in, then we could do things on a larger scale,” recalls Dani in Raffi Berg’s forthcoming book on the operation, Red Sea Spies.“We saw something that looked to us like a mirage,” he says.