Agents worked as diving instructors and hotel staff, hosting real tourists—including Saudi hunters and British commandos—to maintain their cover.
Red Sea Diving Resort: The holiday village run by spies - BBC Rescate En El Mar Rojo
In 1981, Mossad operatives posing as Swiss entrepreneurs leased an abandoned Italian resort called . Location: 70km north of Port Sudan on the Red Sea coast. Agents worked as diving instructors and hotel staff,
"Rescate en el Mar Rojo" (internationally known as The Red Sea Diving Resort ) refers to , a daring Mossad mission in the early 1980s that used a fake luxury hotel in Sudan to smuggle thousands of Ethiopian Jewish refugees to Israel. 🏨 The Front: Arous Holiday Village "Rescate en el Mar Rojo" (internationally known as
Approximately 1,500 to 1,700 people died during the journey from starvation, illness, or attacks by bandits.
Farede Yazazao Aklum , an Ethiopian activist, was the catalyst who wrote the letter to Israel that triggered the operation. 🚢 The Extraction Methods
While the mission is often framed through the lens of Mossad, the true heroes were the Ethiopian Jews who undertook an "odyssey" on foot.