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The record for most passengers ever carried by a commercial airliner is 1,088, by an El Al Boeing 747 during Operation Solomon, which involved the evacuation of Ethiopian Jews from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, and started on 24 May 1991. This figure included two babies born on the flight.

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The record for the most passengers on an airplane was set in 1991 when 1086 Ethiopian jews were evacuated on a Boeing 747 to Jerusalem. The plane landed with 1088 passengers as two babies were born during the flight.

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1. In order to rescue Ethiopian Jews, the Mossad bought and ran a profitable scuba diving resort in Sudan between 1982 and 1984. 8,000 people were safely smuggled to Israel.

2. That, in the 1980's, Israel operated a beach resort in Sudan, which was actually a Mossad front allowing them to evacuate Sudanese and Ethiopian Jews to Israel.

3. In 1991 Israel evacuated all 14,500 Ethiopian Jews to Israel in 36 hours. 35 planes flew back and forth sometimes carrying over 1000 people each. 5 babies were born on the planes and some passengers started fires to keep warm.

4. Female Ethiopian Jews were given injections of contraceptive shots unknowingly to gain entry into Israel.

5. Israel's secret service Mossad ran an entire beach resort in Sudan in the 1980s as a front for its operations, to help smuggle Ethiopian Jews to Israel. They posed as diving instructors, hotel managers, and staff while carrying out the mission.

6. Israel gave birth control to Ethiopian Jews without their consent

7. There is intra-Jewish racism within Israel. Israeli Jews of North African, Middle Eastern, Ethiopian, Yemeni, and Indian descent have faced discrimination, in favor of the European-descent Jews.

8. About "Operation Solomon" - in 1991 with the government of Ethiopia dangerously unstable, Ethiopian Jews (Beta Israel) needed to be evacuated. The covert operation was accomplished by using Boeing 747 passenger jets with the seats stripped out. One jet alone carried 1,122 passengers to Israel

9. There are over 175,000 Jews of Ethiopian descent living in Israel