Operation Magic Carpet (jun 16, 1949 – sep 9, 1949)
Description:
Operation Magic Carpet is a widely known nickname for Operation On Wings of Eagles (Hebrew: כנפי נשרים, Kanfei Nesharim lit. Wings of Eagles/Vultures), an operation between June 1949 and September 1950 that brought 49,000 Yemenite Jews to the new state of Israel. During its course, the overwhelming majority of Yemenite Jews – some 47,000 from Yemen, 1,500 from Aden, as well as 500 from Djibouti and Eritrea and some 2,000 Jews from Saudi Arabia – were airlifted to Israel. British and American transport planes made some 380 flights from Aden.Added to timeline:
Date:
jun 16, 1949
sep 9, 1949
~ 2 months and 25 days