Red Sea Diving Resort: The holiday village run by spies - BBC
The mission evolved from sea-based rescues to complex airlifts as the number of refugees grew. Rescate En El Mar Rojo
Thousands walked over 300 miles from northern Ethiopia to Sudan through mountains and deserts. Red Sea Diving Resort: The holiday village run
In 1981, Mossad operatives posing as Swiss entrepreneurs leased an abandoned Italian resort called . Location: 70km north of Port Sudan on the Red Sea coast. Location: 70km north of Port Sudan on the Red Sea coast
While the mission is often framed through the lens of Mossad, the true heroes were the Ethiopian Jews who undertook an "odyssey" on foot.
Agents worked as diving instructors and hotel staff, hosting real tourists—including Saudi hunters and British commandos—to maintain their cover.
"Rescate en el Mar Rojo" (internationally known as The Red Sea Diving Resort ) refers to , a daring Mossad mission in the early 1980s that used a fake luxury hotel in Sudan to smuggle thousands of Ethiopian Jewish refugees to Israel. 🏨 The Front: Arous Holiday Village