{"id":278354,"date":"2019-06-07T12:06:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-07T16:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.google.com\/articles\/CBMiOmh0dHBzOi8vd3d3LnluZXRuZXdzLmNvbS9hcnRpY2xlcy8wLDczNDAsTC01NTE5NTAzLDAwLmh0bWzSAQA?oc=5"},"modified":"2026-09-27T11:18:53","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T15:18:53","slug":"ynet-remembered-mossad-agent-ferede-aklum-who-guided-early-ethiopian-jewish-journeys-to-sudan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/278354","title":{"rendered":"Ynet remembered Mossad agent Ferede Aklum, who guided early Ethiopian Jewish journeys to Sudan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In June 2019 Ynetnews marked about forty years since Ferede Aklum helped lead the first groups of Ethiopian Jews on foot through the desert toward Sudan, work that later fed into Operation Moses and Operation Solomon.<\/p>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"780\" width=\"780\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-263547\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Immigration-on-the-top-of-agenda-for-Australia-visit-of-Germany-President-730x486.jpg?fit=780%2C780&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Ynet remembered Mossad agent Ferede Aklum, who guided early Ethiopian Jewish journeys to Sudan\" \/>\n<p>Aklum, who died in 2009, was a school headmaster and community leader whose brother Amram said Israeli memory often credited security services while overlooking activists who walked the desert and buried the dead along the way, and who wanted Ferede\u2019s name better known outside the Ethiopian-Israeli community.<\/p>\n<p>Kept as history and diaspora archive, the Ynet feature dates a 2019 effort to restore Ferede Aklum\u2019s place in the Ethiopian Jewish exodus story.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ynetnews.com\/articles\/0,7340,L-5519503,00.html\">Ynetnews<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unsung hero: The Mossad agent who led Ethiopian Jews to the Promised Land&nbsp;&nbsp;YnetnewsIt&#8217;s been 40 years since Ferede Aklum brought the first group through the desert to Sudan; now his brother wants his story told, to inspire Israeli society, wh&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":263547,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-278354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ethiopian-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Immigration-on-the-top-of-agenda-for-Australia-visit-of-Germany-President-730x486.jpg?fit=730%2C486&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-1apA","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278354"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":755076,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278354\/revisions\/755076"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/263547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}