The little-known story of a daring Mossad operation and the holiday resort run by spies.
Raffi Berg is the Middle East editor of the BBC News website, and has extensive experience reporting on Israel and the wider region. His article scratching the surface of this story was the most-read original feature in the history of the site, with more that 5 and a half million readers to date.
Raffi Berg has, for the first time, managed to accomplish the
herculean task of rendering a complex, manifold, full of human
diversity story into a credible, readable, dynamic, passionate and
well-documented book.
*Operation Commander*
The true and most accurate story of the Mossad's Ethiopian Jewish
rescue operation in Sudan over a period of around a decade has
found a gifted and worthy author who deserves high praise for his
monumental effort in unearthing so many key aspects that have never
been publicly revealed till now.
*Efraim Halevy, Head of the Mossad 1998-2002, from his
Afterword*
Secret missions, brazen deceptions and thrilling, clandestine
operations - Red Sea Spies has it all. But it has something more
important, too - a genuine human mission that made a
difference.
*David Hoffman, author of The Billion Dollar Spy*
Red Sea Spies is what really happened. There is none of the
Hollywood colouring-in, and yet the book is all the more vivid for
it ... part thriller, part dark comedy, all true ... Berg brings
out the native drama in an improbable story of a clandestine
homecoming.
*The Spectator*
An amazing story of the dogged behind-the-scenes workings of the
Mossad, Israel's foreign intelligence agency, from the late 1970s
to the '90s ... From the first secret airlift until 1991, writes
the author, who includes helpful maps and a list of the significant
characters, 28,695 Ethiopian Jews were transported to Israel,
"about 80 percent of their entire community." Berg's account of the
operation - remarkable due to its duration, execution, and success
- reads like a spy novel.
*Kirkus*
[A] thrilling and meticulous account.
*The Times*
[An] outstanding debut ... Berg's moving, well-researched book
stands as the definitive account of this heroic rescue mission. It
deserves a wide readership.
*Publishers Weekly*
A compelling portrayal ... providing a startling amount of detail
of the day-to-day activities - putting the reader right there in
the sand with the Mossad agents.
*Jewish Chronicle*
A tense and extraordinary story.
*Choice*
A book which should be on every Jewish bookshelf
*Rabbi Michael Laitner, Educational Director, United Synagogue*
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