Live and Become

Yoram

Schlomo enfant

Schlomo adolescent

Schlomo adulte

Le Qès Amara

Sara

Papy

Hana - la mère Juive Ethiopienne

La mère de Schlomo

Suzy

Rabbin Talmud Tora (as Yossi Alfi)

Directeur internat (as Shmil Ben-Ari)

Le policier

Le traducteur

Tali enfant

Dany enfant

Tali adolescente

Tali adulte

Dany adolescent

Dany adulte

Michael Leibovitch

Fille discothèque

Le père de Sara (as Avi Oria)

Psychologue internat

Le fonctionnaire israélien 1 (as Avraham Selekter)

Le fonctionnaire israélien 2

Itai

Murad

L'Ethiopien

Le docteur français (as Meir Swissa)

Petite fille

Mère petite fille (as Mehereta Baruch)

Ethiopien israélien 1

Père palestinien

Lieutenant

L'infirmière de Natania

Tzvi

Directeur école

Rabbin internat

Professeur internat

Rabbin docteur (as Dudik Smadar)

Grand Rabbin

Qès centre médical

Einat

Mike

L'enseignante de l'école

Adolescent Kibboutz 1

Jeune homme Kibboutz

Adolescent Kibboutz 2

Adolescent Kibboutz 3

Le garde du Kibboutz

Garçon télé

Infirmier du camp

La mère de Schlomo - 20 ans après

Narrateur (voice)

Reporter Guerre Golfe (voice) (as Pierre-Jean Cherer)

Reporter Soudan (voice)

Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)

Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)

Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)

Student (uncredited)

Visa d'exploitation en France # 106667

Schlomo adolescent: Should we give back land we consider our own. We were deprived of it in our wanderings and had no other to call our own. And now we finally have it back and we love it...

Narrateur: They had been forgotten on their mountaintops, near Gondar. Yet, since the dawn of time, the Ethiopian Jews, known as the "Falashas", dreamed of returning to their homeland, the Holy Land, Jerusalem. With Israeli and U.S. Aid, a vast program was undertaken from November to January 1985 to transport the Ethiopian Jews to Israel. The Falashas were returned and finally recognized as descendants of King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba. The Israeli secret service carried out the operation on the sly, keeping it from the Mengitsu pro-Soviet regime who had prohibited their emigration. The Falashas walked from Ethiopia to Sudan, a Muslim country under Charia law. There, they had to hide their Jewish identity under pain of death In Sudan, planes awaited to take them to Israel. On the road, hundreds died of sickness, famine, exhaustion. Others were killed by bandits. In the 1980s, the Sudanese camps welcomed thousands of Africans from 26 countries who were prey to famine: Christians, Muslims, and clandestine Jews. The first secret airlift operation, known as "Operation Moses", saved 8,000 Ethiopian Jews. 4,000 died on the road between Ethiopia and Sudan, murdered, tortured or suffering from famine, thirst and exhaustion. Many children reached the Holy Land alone or as orphans.