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Begun November 21 , 1984 , it involved the air transport of some 8,000 Ethiopian Jews from Sudan directly to Israel , ending January 5 , 1985 . Thousands of Beta Israel had fled Ethiopia on foot for refugee camps in Sudan. It is estimated as many as 4,000 died during the trek. Sudan secretly allowed Israel to evacuate the refugees. Once the story broke in the media, Arab countries pressured Sudan to stop the airlift. Some 1,000 Ethiopian Jews were left behind. Most of them were evacuated later in the U.S.-led Operation Joshua . More than 1,000 so-called "orphans of circumstance" existed in Israel, children separated from their families still in Africa , until Operation Solomon completed the migration of the Ethiopian Jews. {Link without Title} This operation was the subject of an Israeli-French film titled '' Go, See, And Become '', directed by Romanian born Radu Mihăileanu . The film is based on an Ethiopian Christian child whose mother forces him to be passed as a Jew so he can immigrate to Israel along with the Jews in order to escape Famine that is looming in Ethiopia. The film went on to get the 2005 best film award at the Copenhagen International Film Festival . {Link without Title} SEE ALSO REFERENCES # 1 #2 FURTHER READING
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