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Lipkin-Shahak Commanded Airlift of Ethiopian Jews
(Jerusalem Post) Hilary Leila Krieger - Amnon Lipkin-Shahak, as the IDF's deputy chief of staff, commanded Operation Solomon that brought 14,266 Ethiopian Jews to Israel in a covert 36-hour military operation in 1991. "Almost everyone was in white clothes, as if they were going to a wedding," said Lipkin-Shahak at the time.