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<div>{{Expand Arabic|منير روفا|fa=yes|date=March 2009}}<br />
'''Munir Redfa''' ({{lang-ar|منير ردفا}}, born '''Munir Habib Jamil Rufa''' ({{lang-ar|منير حبيب جميل روفا}}) (1934 – circa 1998<ref name=ynetnews/>) was an Iraqi [[fighter pilot]], of [[Assyrian people|Assyrian]] ethnic origin, who [[defection|defected]] in 1966 by [[Stealing a Soviet MiG|flying a MiG-21]] of the Iraqi Air Force to Israel. In what is considered as one of the [[Mossad]]'s most successful operations, Redfa's entire extended family was smuggled safely out of Iraq to Israel. The MiG-21 fighter was evaluated by the [[Israeli Air Force]] and was later loaned to the [[United States]] for testing and intelligence analysis. Knowledge obtained from analysis of the aircraft was instrumental to the successes achieved by the [[Israeli Air Force]] in its future encounters with Arab MiG-21s.<ref name=ynetnews>{{cite news|url=http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3405913,00.html|work=YNet News|title=The Blue Bird legend|author=Reuven Weiss|date=May 29, 2007}}.</ref> Redfa's defection was the subject of the movie ''[[Steal the Sky]]''.<br />
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He was the second of nine children. Like many other Assyrians, his family fled to Iraq as part of the [[Christian]] migration from southeast Turkey and the northwestern mountains of Iran following the [[Assyrian Genocide]].{{citation needed|date=August 2013}}<br />
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Redfa died in August 1998 of a heart attack.<ref name=ynetnews/><br />
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==References==<br />
{{reflist}}<br />
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==External links==<br />
* [http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/History/migtheft.html Stealing a Soviet MiG], Jewish Virtual Library.<br />
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==See also==<br />
* [[Viktor Belenko]]<br />
* [[List of Cold War pilot defections]]<br />
* [[Have Doughnut]]<br />
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[[Category:Iraqi Assyrian people]]<br />
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[[Category:Iraqi emigrants to Israel]]<br />
[[Category:Iraqi Air Force personnel]]<br />
[[Category:Mossad]]<br />
[[Category:Iraqi Oriental Orthodox Christians]]<br />
[[Category:Iraqi defectors]]<br />
[[Category:Israeli Oriental Orthodox Christians]]<br />
[[Category:1990s deaths]]</div>114.35.244.72https://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Munir_Redfa&diff=238788496Munir Redfa2014-05-04T14:07:07Z<p>114.35.244.72: </p>
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<div>{{Expand Arabic|منير روفا|fa=yes|date=March 2009}}<br />
'''Munir Redfa''' ({{lang-ar|منير ردفا}}, born '''Munir Habib Jamil Rufa''' ({{lang-ar|منير حبيب جميل روفا}}) (1934 – circa 1998<ref name=ynetnews/>) was an Iraqi [[fighter pilot]], of [[Assyrian people|Assyrian]] ethnic origin, who [[defection|defected]] in 1966 by [[Stealing a Soviet MiG|flying a MiG-21]] of the Iraqi Air Force to Israel. In what is considered as one of the [[Mossad]]'s most successful operations, Redfa's entire extended family was smuggled safely out of Iraq to Israel. The MiG-21 fighter was evaluated by the [[Israeli Air Force]] and was later loaned to the [[United States]] for testing and intelligence analysis. Knowledge obtained from analysis of the aircraft was instrumental to the successes achieved by the [[Israeli Air Force]] in its future encounters with Arab MiG-21s.<ref name=ynetnews>{{cite news|url=http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3405913,00.html|work=YNet News|title=The Blue Bird legend|author=Reuven Weiss|date=May 29, 2007}}.</ref> Redfa's defection was the subject of the movie ''[[Steal the Sky]]''.<br />
<br />
He was the second of nine children. Like many other Assyrians, his family fled to Iraq as part of the [[Christian]] migration from southeast Turkey and the northwestern mountains of Iran following the [[Assyrian Genocide]].{{citation needed|date=August 2013}}<br />
<br />
Redfa died August 1998 of a heart attack.<ref name=ynetnews/><br />
<br />
==References==<br />
{{reflist}}<br />
<br />
==External links==<br />
* [http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/History/migtheft.html Stealing a Soviet MiG], Jewish Virtual Library.<br />
<br />
==See also==<br />
* [[Viktor Belenko]]<br />
* [[List of Cold War pilot defections]]<br />
* [[Have Doughnut]]<br />
<br />
{{Persondata <!-- Metadata: see [[Wikipedia:Persondata]]. --><br />
|NAME = Redfa, Munir<br />
|ALTERNATIVE NAMES =<br />
|SHORT DESCRIPTION = Iraqi fighter pilot who defected to Israel<br />
|DATE OF BIRTH = 1934<br />
|PLACE OF BIRTH = Iraq<br />
|DATE OF DEATH = 1998<br />
|PLACE OF DEATH =<br />
}}<br />
{{DEFAULTSORT:Redfa, Munir}}<br />
[[Category:Iraqi Assyrian people]]<br />
[[Category:1934 births]]<br />
[[Category:People from Mosul]]<br />
[[Category:Iraqi emigrants to Israel]]<br />
[[Category:Iraqi Air Force personnel]]<br />
[[Category:Mossad]]<br />
[[Category:Iraqi Oriental Orthodox Christians]]<br />
[[Category:Iraqi defectors]]<br />
[[Category:Israeli Oriental Orthodox Christians]]<br />
[[Category:1990s deaths]]</div>114.35.244.72