The main essence of Israel's development has been aliyah, immigration of Jews from dozens of countries on every continent speaking over 100 different languages. They came from Russia before the revolution, from Germany and Austria fleeing the Nazis and from Poland, Hungary, Romania and Czechoslovakia out of the ashes of the Holocaust. They came from Iraq, Syria, Yemen and North Africa expelled by Arab anti-Zionism. Most recently they have come from the former Soviet Union, Eastern Europe and Ethiopia. Since 1990 alone over 700,000 immigrants have reached Israel from the former Soviet Union. In May 1991 the largest number of newcomers to reach Israel in one day was recorded when 14,000 Ethiopian Jews were airlifted to the country during Operation Solomon. Operation Solomon was the carried out by the I.D.F ( Israeli Defence Force) and of the Israeli government to bring Ethiopian Jews from Ethiopia to Israel, “bringing to an end the 3,000 year old saga of the Ethiopian Jewish community, as told in their tradition”. This operation took place on the 24th of May, 1991 and was the arrival of 15000 (even babies were born on flight) new Jewish Ethiopians. It took 48 hours. The first stage of this operation was to move them new patch of immigrants from Gundar to Addis which happened between February and May of 1990 with the help of America giving aid. Great tension was put on the Ethiopian government to let the Ethiopians go. But in March of 1991 a vicious act threatened to overthrow the Ethiopian government. The Jews needed to be out of Ethiopia before the government broke down. The main theme of miagration has been impact. The impact of new immigrants has changed the social, political, economical and cultural ways of Israel, the people living in Israel and the new immigrants.This operation cost Israel $35,000,000. Israel made El Al cover their logo on their aircrafts and army soldiers were dressed as normal civilians so that it...
