The Jerusalem Post has a report on the new documentary film Code Name Silence, made by Ethiopian journalist and filmmaker Danny Adino Abebe. The film documents abuses committed by a minority of Ethiopian Jewish Mossad operatives during Operation Moses:
…"[During that time] we in the Ethiopian community had our heroes; they were known as the Committee and they were our saviors," comments Abebe in the 50-minute film's introduction.
Made up of Ethiopian Jews handpicked by the Mossad, the Committee's task was to distribute food, medicine and money to those waiting in the camps and facilitate their emigration. Many of the Committee members risked their lives to ensure that the 14,000 or so Jews made it to the Promised Land, but as Abebe reveals through first-hand testimonies, several of the Committee's members abused their powerful positions, raping women and refusing to hand over the resources at their disposal.…
Former Jewish Agency head Simcha Dinitz (now passed on) confirms the abuses on camera.
I knew in 1984 about some of these abuses and about two specific individual abusers, but I did not know the full extent of the problem. Hopefully this film will bring the prosecution of those who raped and stole their way through Operation Moses.