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for Operation Solomon, which air-
Barbara Ribakove Gordon, execu-
lifted 14,000 Ethiopians to Israel in
tive director of the North American
1991. Those in the compound
Conference of Ethiopian Jewry
(NACOEJ), who visited the village
missed the airlift either because they
didn't arrive in the capital in time or
of Buchara on June 14, was told that
because their applications weren't
a 4-year-old girl was rescued from
the flames of a burning tukul, and
processed in time.
According to Avi Granot, Israel's
that in another village, a 6-year-old
former ambassador to
girl burned to death.
Some 200 now-homeless
Ethiopian Jews Ethiopia and the current
minister for public affairs at
Falash Mura, fled from
packed into
the Israeli Embassy in Wash-
Buchara to the nearby village
airplanes in
1991 to fly to ington, 2,000 of the airlifted
of Choit and are living in a
Israel.
Ethiopians were Falash
barn, according to Ribakove
Mura, many of whom were
Gordon.
separated from family members.
Those families are among the
Operation Solomon followed
many Falash Mura who have fled to
Operation Moses, a secret airlift that
larger villages and to two main cities,
began in late 1984. More than 6,000,
Gonder in the north and Addis
Jews were airlifted from the Sudan,
Ababa in the center of the country,
where thousands of Ethiopian Jews
according to Ribakove Gordon and
had trekked. That airlift was sus-
two other recent visitors from the
pended by the Sudanese government
Israeli-based group South Wing to
when it became public.
Zion, all of whom collected testimo-
The rescue of Ethiopian Jewry
ny from refugees from Buchara and
came after Israel's Sephardi chief
six other villages.
rabbi, Ovadia Yosef, issued a ruling
Michael Schneider, executive vice
in 1973 recognizing the "Falashas" as
president of the American Jewish
Joint Distribution Committee, which Jews who were descendants of the
lost tribe of Dan.
has spent upwards of $10 million
Some 65,000 Ethiopians now live
aiding the Jews and Falash Mura of
in Israel.
Ethiopia, is dubious of the reports of
An Israeli ministerial committee
violence.
last year decided to allow all of
"There is no hard evidence to sug-
those waiting to emigrate to Israel
gest that there either is or will be an
and then to close down the com-
outbreak of pogroms against either
pound.
Jews or Falash Mura," said Schnei-
Israel "definitely had a humanitar-
der, who has sent his own team to
ian responsibility for those people"
investigate.
because they were brought to Addis
The JDC and the North American
Ababa with the "belief that they are
Conference compound provides edu-
on the way to Israel" and they prac-
cational, health and other services for
ticed Judaism while living in the
those waiting to immigrate to Israel.
compound, Granot said.
Most of those in the compound were
The problem, Granot said, it that
brought to Addis Ababa by Israeli
all of the 40 million Coptic Chris-
emissaries in the process of preparing

