Operation Goshen began in 1948 and continued until 1953 conducted by the
Mossad Le'aliyah BetThe Mossad LeAliyah Bet was a branch of theHaganah in the British Mandate of Palestine that operated to facilitate Jewish immigration to Palestine in violation of unilateral British restrictions. It operated from 1938 until the founding of the State of Israel in 1948...
because of increasingly anti-semitic activities and pressures to the
JewThe Jews , also known as the Jewish people, are an ethnoreligious group originating in the Israelites or Hebrews of the Ancient Near East. The Jewish ethnicity, nationality, and religion are strongly interrelated, as Judaism is the traditional faith of the Jewish nation...
s in
EgyptEgypt , officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a country mainly in North Africa, with the Sinai Peninsula forming a land bridge in Western Asia...
. It succeeded in smuggling out more than 10,000
EgyptianEgyptians is the name of the nationality and Mediterranean North African ethnic group native to Egypt....
Jews to Israel. There were many operations like this conducted in various countries by the Mossad Le'aliyah Bet in the wake of
World War IIWorld War II, or the Second World War , was a global military conflict which involved a majority of the world's nations, including all great powers, organized into two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...
.
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Operation Goshen began in 1948 and continued until 1953 conducted by the
Mossad Le'aliyah BetThe Mossad LeAliyah Bet was a branch of theHaganah in the British Mandate of Palestine that operated to facilitate Jewish immigration to Palestine in violation of unilateral British restrictions. It operated from 1938 until the founding of the State of Israel in 1948...
because of increasingly anti-semitic activities and pressures to the
JewThe Jews , also known as the Jewish people, are an ethnoreligious group originating in the Israelites or Hebrews of the Ancient Near East. The Jewish ethnicity, nationality, and religion are strongly interrelated, as Judaism is the traditional faith of the Jewish nation...
s in
EgyptEgypt , officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a country mainly in North Africa, with the Sinai Peninsula forming a land bridge in Western Asia...
. It succeeded in smuggling out more than 10,000
EgyptianEgyptians is the name of the nationality and Mediterranean North African ethnic group native to Egypt....
Jews to Israel. There were many operations like this conducted in various countries by the Mossad Le'aliyah Bet in the wake of
World War IIWorld War II, or the Second World War , was a global military conflict which involved a majority of the world's nations, including all great powers, organized into two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...
.