Israel Today Presents
Red Sea Spies: The True Story of Mossad's Fake Diving Resort
with Author Raffi Berg & Mossad Commander Dani Limor

Hear from the author of the book that inspired the Netflix film The Red Sea Diving Resort as well as the  actual Mossad Commander who created the undercover, top-secret operation!

In the early 1980s on a remote part of the Sudanese coast, a new luxury holiday resort opened for business. Catering for divers, it attracted guests from around the world. Little did the holiday-makers know that the staff were undercover spies, working for the Mossad – the Israeli secret service. Providing a front for covert night-time activities, the holiday village allowed the agents to carry out an operation unlike any seen before. What began with one cryptic message pleading for help, turned into the secret evacuation of thousands of Ethiopian Jews who had been languishing in refugee camps, and the spiriting of them to Israel.

Written in collaboration with operatives involved in the mission, endorsed as the definitive account and including an afterword from the then Mossad director, this is the complete, never-before-heard, gripping tale of a top-secret and often hazardous operation.

Raffi Berg is the Middle East editor of the BBC News website. A journalist for nearly 30 years, he has a particular interest in events in Israel, from where he has reported extensively in times of war and peace. He graduated in Modern and Medieval History from the London School of Economics, and was a student of Jewish and Israel studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Raffi is based in London, where he lives with his family.  

Dani Limor was born and raised in Montevideo, Uruguay. He made aliya on his own at the age of 16, studying for three years at a yeshiva followed by service in the IDF as an officer in the Paratroopers Brigade. Dani participated in four wars between 1967 and 1982, rising to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel (res). In 1968 he was recruited to the Mossad, where he served in various capacities for 25 years. Among his many tasks, he commanded Operation Brothers which spirited Ethiopian Jews out of Sudan and onward to Israel. After retirement, Dani still conducted projects for the agency. Currently, he is mapping emerging Jewish communities around the world in places like Africa, Asia and Latin America for the Ministry of Diaspora Affairs. Alongside his official work, Dani is also a founding member and Chairman of the Board of the Nachshon School for Social Leadership. He holds a degree in Political Science and International Relations from Bar Ilan University and is fluent in English, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Hebrew, Yiddish and Arabic.

As a part of the United Jewish Federation of Tidewater and Simon Family JCC’s Lee and Bernard Jaffe Family Jewish Book Festival, in coordination with the Jewish Book Council,
the only organization in North America whose sole purpose is the promotion of Jewish books