[DailyMail] ...and used to evacuate 7,000 Ethiopian Jews from refugee camps in Sudan is being turned into Hollywood film starring Chris Evans.
- Hollywood has found inspiration for a film coming out next year on the Mossad operation of the early 1980s
- Arous was a Mossad base to secretly evacuate 7,000 Ethiopian Jews to Israel from refugee camps in Sudan
- As far as tourists and authorities knew, the resort was owned by Europeans who employed local residents
- Agents had set up a fake diving resort in Sudan to rescue the Ethiopian Jews
- The operation played out for four years, from 1981 to 1985
- The tale is set to become a Hollywood film, starring Ben Kingsley, Haley Bennett and Chris Evans
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