Saving a World: A Story That Will Blow your Mind - Rabbi Menachem Feifer

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[Music] About 40 years ago, the state of Israel embarked on a project that was called Project Solomon, where about 17,000 Ethiopian Jews were airlifted from Ethiopia to Erit Israel. Ethiopia was in the midst of a very bloody civil war and the Yidden were caught in between the gunfire between the two battling armies. Arrol the state of Israel sent one of their top statesmen to negotiate with the prime minister of Ethiopia who was then a communist to ask him to allow the state of Israel to bring these Jews to Israel. And the prime minister demanded a tremendous amount of money before he would allow them to be taken from the country. In his negotiations with the prime minister, he managed to pull down the price of what he was asking for to a much more reasonable amount. But the prime minister insisted on one more thing which seemed to be an

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1. 0:00[Music] About 40 years ago, the state of Israel embarked on a project that was called…
2. 0:30their top statesmen to negotiate with the prime minister of Ethiopia who was then a communist…
3. 1:00insurmountable problem. He said he would only let the Jews go if the president of the…
4. 1:31to beg President Bush to write this letter. President Bush was in a quandry. On the…
5. 2:01African-American children were caught in an apartment on the fourth floor and the seemingly there was…
6. 2:33Ethiopia. What I just did was a mitzvah, and Jews don't sell mitzvah, said Secretary Colin…
7. 3:05we don't know what we're doing, not just for ourselves, for our generations, but for all…

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