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that he was stunned to learn of the operation. “I heard about the bigger aerial lifts,” Raff said—referring to the cargo planes used to fly thousands of Ethiopian Jews to safety in the 1980s. “But I never heard about this hotel.” Raff was so intrigued that he flew to Israel to track down Mossad agents who had actually worked at Arous, as well as some of the Ethiopians who courageously left their homes so they could flee to Jerusalem.
Raff encountered so many incredible stories about the difficulties of balancing both a functional resort with an undercover intelligence operation that he couldn’t include them all in his film. During one such story, agents were trying to covertly sneak persecuted Ethiopians into trucks while simultaneously dealing with a shampoo- and towel-related issue at the resort. There were also close calls when the Mossad agents, who needed to pass as non-Israeli, nearly blew their covers.
“The Mossad had to recruit people who had international backgrounds” and “spoke fluently in a different language,” explained Raff. During one such incident, according to the Israeli newspaper, a Canadian guest reportedly “took a diving instructor aside and stated, matter-of-factly and in Hebrew, that he knew the staff couldn’t possibly be European. In fact, he was sure they were Israelis....
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