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The Rescue of Ethiopian o an Jews Background Information Operation Shlomo 1991 May 24 , 1991 . Many Jews crowded the Israeli Embassy in Addis Ababa , the capital of Ethiopia . The State of Israel transferred 35 million dollars to the Ethiopian government to enable the Jews to leave Ethiopia and immigrate to Israel . A civil war was raging in Ethiopia at the time and the government was about to fall . The rebels had besieged the capital and there was concern that if they captured it and gained control of the government , they would not hesitate to massacre the Jews seeking safety in a foreign country . It was thus clear that the Ethiopian Jews must be evacuated while there was still time . The airplanes military airplanes and El Al airplanes flew back and forth and , within a little over twenty-four hours , they had succeeded in bringing more than 14 , 000 Jews to Israel . This operation is known as Operation Shlomo because , according to tradition , the Jews of Ethiopia are the descendants of King Shlomo ( Solomon ) and the Queen of Sheba . 14 , 000 Jews were airlifted from Ethiopia to Israel within 36 hours in 1991 .
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