Operation Solomon

On This Day: Operation Solomon’s record-breaking flight and humanitarian triumph

Ethiopian Jews who escaped remember being woken up by their parents in the middle of the night and being told to pack very few items.

|ByJOANIE MARGULIES
NEW OLIM rescued from Ethiopia step out of an IAF Hercules at a base in Israel, during Operation Solomon, May 1991.
Ashager Araro

25 ViZionaries: Ashager Araro - No. 13

Engages audiences throughout the world on issues pertinent to Israel and the Jewish people.

|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
ISRAELA WITH her mother.

Ethiopian-Israeli parliamentary adviser tells her story

Israela Ayenwo, former journalist and current adviser to Tamno-Shata, is the second eldest of eight siblings who were all born in Israel.

|ByBRENDA KATTEN
Rare pictures of Operation Solomon released by the Defense Ministry, May 2021.

30 years on, Defense Ministry releases Operation Solomon footage - Watch

Nearly 15,000 Ethiopian Jews were evacuated to Israel in Operation Solomon in 1991 and 30 years on, the Defense Ministry has released rare footage of the IDF-led operation.

|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF

Operation Solomon: Thirty years since the rescue of the Jews of Ethiopia

In 1989, after 16 years of separation, diplomatic ties between Israel and Ethiopia were renewed and the Ethiopian government allowed several hundred Jews to immigrate to Israel each month.

MAY 20, 2021ByCARMIT SAPIR WEITZ
JEWISH AGENCY Chairman of the Executive Isaac Herzog welcomes Ethiopian olim in Operation Zur Israel