For over three decades, details on ‘Operation Djibouti’, a Mossad extraction mission so secret that not even the Israeli foreign ministry or the army knew about it, remained largely hidden from the public. An estimated 8,000 Jews made it to Israel as part of Operation Moses, although some 4,000 more are thought to have died along the way. In all, 23 would-be immigrants ended up making it to Djibouti, where Mossad had rented out a villa. Dawit, who was separated from the group in Djibouti, spent over 15 months in jail without being charged. Scherf did admit that “in retrospect,” Operation Djibouti “was one short-term attempt that failed, it turned out to be impractical”, but still defended the attempt.

Source: Ethiopian News December 22, 2019 11:04 UTC