Rescue: the Exodus of the Ethiopian Jews

Plot

Descendants, according to legend, of a night of love between King Solomon and Queen of Sheba, Ethiopia's 28,000 black Jews historically have been forced to live in isolated poverty and forbidden to emigrate. Rescue reveals how most of these people, with Israeli and American assistance, succeeded in reaching the Promised Land in 1985, after an epic trek across the desert and the overcoming of such obstacles as lions, dangerous river crossings, would be rapists and robbers, the constant threat of starvation and the violent enmity of the Marxist Ethipoian government. Gruber, the only American journist to witness "Operation Moses" presents it as a great, stirring saga, focusing on the fotunes of as mall number of the refugees. A thougouly statisfying story, topped off with a decription of the absorption of the black Jews into Israeli society.