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New Netflix Action Film Shows How Israel Rescued Thousands of Ethiopian Jews from Genocide

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JERUSALEM, Israel - A new Netflix thriller tells the harrowing true story of an Israeli operation in the 1980s to rescue Ethiopian Jews from genocide in Sudan and bring them to Israel.

Directed by Israeli Gideon Raff, "The Red Sea Diving Resort" will be released on Netflix's streaming platform on July 31.

The heavy-hitter cast includes Chris Evans, who rose to fame for playing Captain America in the Avengers series. Evans will play the lead role of Ari Levinson, a Mossad agent who worked undercover with Ethiopians to smuggle thousands of Ethiopian Jews out of Sudan and into Israel.

"THE RED SEA DIVING RESORT is the incredible story of a group of international agents and brave Ethiopians who in the early 80s used a deserted holiday retreat in Sudan as a front to smuggle thousands of refugees to Israel," Netflix says on its website.

The action-packed film will echo notes from films like "Hotel Rwanda" and "Argo."

Also in the cast are Haley Bennett, Alessandro Nivola, Michiel Huisman, Chris Chalk, Greg Kinnear and Ben Kingsley, who starred as Nazi killer Adolf Eichmann last year in the move "Operation Finale."

Netflix released the movie's trailer on Wednesday and within hours it received more than a million views.

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Emily Jones is a multi-media journalist for CBN News in Jerusalem. Before she moved to the Middle East in 2019, she spent years regularly traveling to the region to study the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, meet with government officials, and raise awareness about Christian persecution. During her college years, Emily served as president of Regent University's Christians United for Israel chapter and spoke alongside world leaders at numerous conferences and events. She is an active member of the Philos Project, an organization that seeks to promote positive Christian engagement with the Middle