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2015-11-08 Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Israeli special forces rescue last Jews in Aleppo, Syria
[WND] It was recently revealed that Israeli special forces carried out a daring operation to rescue the last Jewish family in the Syrian city of Aleppo.

The Jewish Chronicle reports that preparation for the mission began months in advance. First an Israeli-American businessman named Moti Kahana sent a message to the family, whose name has not been released, that he wanted to get them out of the war-torn country. The family was aware of how dangerous Syria was, but they were too afraid to even take the chance on escaping.

Kahana, who has a number of connections with rebel forces, soon heard reports that ISIS was closing in on the family and decided to get them out, whether they liked it or not.

Without revealing precisely how or with whom he coordinated his plans, Kahana set the wheels in motion for the IDF to make another tally in its history of saving stranded Jews, a list that already includes the legendary stories of Yemen and Ethiopia.

Once the time came, three soldiers knocked on the family's front door. The 88-year-old matriarch answered, fearing that Assad's soldiers had come to take them all away. Instead, the soldiers ordered the seven people present that they could each take one bag and that they must get into a waiting minibus.

After the minibus began moving, the soldiers handed out Syrian passports and said that they would soon be free.

The vehicle was stopped at an ISIS checkpoint, but the family was able to convince the guard that they were refugees trying to escape from Assad. The guard was so impressed by their claims that he even called other checkpoints, instructing them to let the minibus through.

It took them 36 hours to cross the hundred kilometers to the Turkish border. Once out of Syria, they drove to a rented home in Istanbul, where Kahana was waiting.
Posted by Besoeker 2015-11-08 03:27|| || Front Page|| [11129 views ]  Top

#1 :) feel good story of the week.
Posted by Shipman 2015-11-08 08:16||   2015-11-08 08:16|| Front Page Top

#2 Just make sure mama doesn't look back.
Posted by Procopius2k 2015-11-08 09:36||   2015-11-08 09:36|| Front Page Top

#3 I bet obama will have this Israeli \American buisnessman investigated now..
Posted by chris 2015-11-08 09:48||   2015-11-08 09:48|| Front Page Top

#4 chris, he don't need no stinkin' investigation. He'll just send in the SWAT team on some trumped up charge about a video and drag him away.
Posted by AlanC 2015-11-08 11:48||   2015-11-08 11:48|| Front Page Top

#5 Dad, what are you talking, be careful, I'm going fishing here!

Don't fall in.
Posted by swksvolFF 2015-11-08 17:49||   2015-11-08 17:49|| Front Page Top

#6 Good find, Besoeker.
Posted by trailing wife 2015-11-08 19:30||   2015-11-08 19:30|| Front Page Top

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