Talk:Operation Moses

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Contents 1 Characterizing as military operation 2 Dont forget about jewish Americans 3 Expanded list of participants 4 Who spilled the beans?

[edit] Characterizing as military operation

I am not sure that charecterizing this as a military operation is quite correct. The pages I have read mention agents and El Al but not IDF. Operation Solomon appears to certainly have involved IDF. Does El Al actually fly C-130s though as it is claimed in the linked article? Or just IDF? Rmhermen 13:07, May 4, 2004 (UTC)

This was a military operation led by the army. The IDF took the seats out of ElAl jets and played a very large role. --יהושועEric 14:39, 1 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Dont forget about jewish Americans

This operation had been conducted in the state of secrecy. Most of the funding for the operation came from Jewish-Americans living in the United States of America. And their organizations contributed to to operation moses becoming a success.

[edit] Expanded list of participants

I added all of the key players of the operation. It was a triumph of feet-on-the-ground realism for all parties involved. Feco 08:28, 28 Apr 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Who spilled the beans?

According to these folks, Shimon Peres called a press conference and announced the ongoing existence of Operation Moses:

The link to the article that author is referring to ("Operation Moses victims honored", Jerusalem Post, May 3 2005) is dead, but the article is in Google's cache here: