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.

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

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ISRAELA WITH her mother.

Ethiopian-Israeli parliamentary adviser tells her story

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

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


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.

JEWISH AGENCY Chairman of the Executive Isaac Herzog welcomes Ethiopian olim in Operation Zur Israel