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March 22, 1951
Operation Magic Carpet
Operation
Magic Carpet is a widely known nickname for Operation On Wings of Eagles, an
operation between June 1949 and March 1951 that brought 49,000 Yemenite Jews to
the new state of Israel.
During
its course, the overwhelming majority of Yemenite Jews – some 47,000 Yemeni,
1,500 Aden as well as 500 Djiboutian and Eritrean Jews – were airlifted to Israel.
British and American transport planes made some 380 flights from Aden, in a
secret operation that was not made public until several months after it was
over.
The
reasons for the exodus as multifaceted, some aspects due to Zionism and economic straits as their traditional role
was whittled away, famine, disease, growing political persecution, and
increased public hostility, the state of anarchy after the murder of Imam Yahya Muhammad Hamid ed-Din, the ruler of the kingdom, and
often a desire to be reunited with family members.
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