Contemporary era · 1991
Operation Solomon
Operation Solomon (Hebrew: מבצע שלמה, romanized: Mivtza Shlomo) was a covert Israel Defense Forces operation from May 24 to 25, 1991, to airlift Ethiopian Jews to Israel. Non-stop flights of 35 Israeli aircraft, including Israeli Air Force C-130s and El Al Boeing 747s, transported 14,325 Ethiopian Jews to Israel in 36 hours.
- When
- 24 May 1991 – 25 May 1991
- Where
- Addis Ababa
- Era
- Contemporary
Topics
Before and after
Text from the Wikipedia article Operation Solomon, CC BY-SA 4.0