PM Shamir planned to save 2 million Jews as Soviet Union appeared on verge of breaking up
Dr. Aaron Lerner - IMRA 10 October 2014

Avi Kfiri reveals in a article in Makor Rishon on 8 October that PM Shamir
at the start of the 1990's set up a top secret group to prepare the
emergency evacuation of up to 2 million Jews form the Soviet Union.

Shamir was feared that if the Soviet Union crumbled that hundreds of
thousands of Jews would be killed in pogroms.

The planning went into great detail with Israeli agents visiting the Soviet
Union to identify evacuation routes - including buildings that could be used
for way stations and how arrangements could be made to feed the Jews as they
were in transit. There were even plans to fly in thousands of IDF soldiers
using Hercules planes to protect the Jews as they were evacuated from
particularly dangerous areas.
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