Adnan Khashoggi, a Saudi financier, helped fund Operation Moses in 1984, the top-secret airlift of 14,000 Ethiopian Jews out of Sudan during a famine caused by the Ethiopian Civil War. Which Middle Eastern country was their destination?

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Israel. In 1984, Saudi arms dealer Adnan Khashoggi helped organize and fund the top-secret Operation Moses, which airlifted 14,000 Ethiopian Jews out of famine-hit Sudan. The rescue mission Khashoggi backed carried the refugees to safety in Israel during the Ethiopian Civil War.