Having traveled through hundreds of miles of desert, and having buried loved ones along the way, enduring impossible heat and ravaging disease almost 15,000 Ethiopian Jews arrived in Sudan to await a transport to Israel in Operation Solomon, the third and final rescue operation to transport Ethiopian Jews to the Holy Land. Over the course of 36 hours, non-stop flights of Israeli aircrafts, both military and civilian vessels, whisked them to safety to join their brethren in the Eternal Jewish homeland. In order to accommodate all the passengers, the seats in all these aircraft were removed; one flight, an El Al 747, transported 1,088 people, a figure that made it into the Guinness Book of World Records. On the same flight, two babies were born. Consider for a moment that many of these Jews lived previously in rural districts, and had never laid eyes on an airplane before. Daniel Gordis cites an interview with one of these passengers, who was asked how he had the courage to step...
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