In the early 1980s, Israeli intelligence concocted a plan to airlift Ethiopian Jews from Sudan to Israel as a humanitarian mission. The Sudanese government said no. So, the Israeli intelligence agency, Mossad, built a fake resort on the Red Sea. The BBC’s Raffi Berg tells Marco Werman all about it.
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