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Operation Esther

12 minutes promo describing the efforts of ICROJOY and finally the success of convincing the Yemeni Government to grant freedom of travel for the Jews of Yemen, after 30 years od Isolation from the outside world. The promo has many valuable interviews with various important personalities involved in the rescue efforts.

Data Sheet: The events were produced and directed by Destiny Film Production in New York.

This amazing story is recounted by Professor Tawil in his book "Operation Esther". As its pages so powerfully demonstrate, a few men of great faith can sometimes move mountains.

Tawil, hugs a Jewish boy from Raidah. 1989

Hayim Tawil

Professor of Ancient Semitic Languages and Human Rights Activist

Diver of linguistic jewels to be found at the bosom of history, tells us of the ancestral bond between ancient semitic tongues and grinds away at texts, phrases and words to offer a fascinating vision of the relationship between language and civilizations.

Download Professor Tawil's resume in acrobat format

Hayim Tawil received his Ph.D. from Columbia University and is professor of Hebrew language and literature at Yeshiva University in New York.

Tawil has published numerous articles in comparative Semitic lexicography and he is the author of the recently published An Akkadian Lexical Companion for Biblical Hebrew (2009).

He is also the author of Operation Esther: Opening the door for the Last Jews of Yemen, and in 2001, was nominated for the Eleanor Roosevelt Award for Human Rights for his work in Yemen.