Operation Moses

An Unsung Foreign Service Hero

Some 10,000 Ethiopian Jews owe their lives to Jerry Weaver, an FSO with swash and buckle to spare.

Robert D. Kaplan is a senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security. He is the author of The Arabists: The Romance of an American Elite (1993) and Surrender or Starve: Travels in Ethiopia, Sudan, Somalia, and Eritrea (1988).