Special Briefing with Former Mossad Agent Yola Reitman, on Mossad's "Operation Brothers" and behind the scenes story of the Red Sea Diving Resort - the rescue of Ethiopians from the Sudan to Israel.
"Operation Brothers"
When the Mossad established a diving resort as a covert base of operation, Yola was sent to manage the resort, with it's staff. Yola was found extremely right for the job given her looks, personality, skill-set and characteristics. When in 1982 Yola Reitman's scuba diving partner said he wanted her to meet someone, she didn't know she was about to play a role in a key moment in Israeli history.
The former El Al flight attendant was recruited by Mossad as an undercover agent to take part in Operation Brothers. The village in Arous, Sudan was active and had many tourists who came for diving lessons who were actually given by Israel's elite naval unit - Shayetet 13. Hear her thrilling personal story of the undercover operation that saved thousands of lives.
An operating dive resort by day, the resort smuggled Ethiopian Jews to Israel by the sea at night. Yola shares her leading role and the drama of living undercover in the operation to rescue Ethiopian Jews, as seen in the recent Netflix movie "Red Sea Diving Resort". An heroic journey from Ethiopia to Jerusalem.
It is recommended to watch the movie The Red Sea Diving Resort on Netflix prior to the briefing if you are able to do so. The Red Sea Diving Resort (also known as Operation Brothers) is a 2019 spy thriller film written and directed by Gideon Raff. The film stars Chris Evans as an Israeli Mossad agent who runs a covert operation that helps Ethiopian-Jewish refugees escape to safe haven in Israel. Haley Bennett (picture below) plays Yola in the movie.
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