From Rhodes to Tel Aviv and back is 1000 miles over featureless hostile water with no islands or land masses at all. They must have been good navigators and have had faith in their Alfa Romeo engines.
Tel Aviv was a new all-Jewish small city devoid of British and of no military or strategic value
at all. Mussolini was not as zealous an anti-semite as Hitler and the Italian people were not known for their anti-semitism and this was 11/2 years before the Wannsee Conference. One wonders what was the motivation for this raid, even as a "terror raid"?