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Operation Magic Carpet is a widely known nickname for Operation On Wings of Eagles (Hebrew: כנפי נשרים Knafei 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 . [ 1 ]
Flying Carpet Airlines: 7Y: FCR: FLYING CARPET: 2001: 2009: Rebranded as Med Airways: Globe Jet: GJA: 2004: 2007: ImperialJet: JTI;IMJ: 2007: 2009: Lebanese International Airways: LQ: LIA: 1966: 1970: 31% interest acquired in 1968 against payment for CV-990As. Taken over by Middle East Airlines Air Liban following the 1968 Israeli raid on ...
In February 2009, 10 Yemeni Jews immigrated to Israel, and in July 2009, three families, or 16 people in total, followed suit. [14] [15] In January 2013, it was reported that a group of 60 Yemenite Jews had immigrated to Israel in a secret operation, arriving in Israel via a flight from Qatar. This was reported to be part of a larger operation ...
The indictment detailed the torture of several prisoners, including one identified by the initials K.A.M., whose body Sheikh, prison officials and prison guards allegedly contorted on the "flying ...
After the Arab defeat and establishment of the State of Israel, he feared that Israel might demand reparations for Jewish property in Yemenl. Thinking this, he swiftly set in motion a plan for Jewish emigration en masse; referred to as "Operation Magic Carpet", the effort would see nearly 50,000 Jews flying safely out of Yemen. [3]
Operation Magic Carpet was the post-World War II operation by the U.S. War Shipping Administration (WSA) to repatriate over eight million American military personnel from the European (ETO), Pacific, and Asian theaters.
Israel wasted no time after Bashar al-Assad’s fall to bomb all the Syrian military assets it wanted to keep out of the rebels’ hands – striking nearly 500 targets, destroying the navy, and ...
Operation Solomon (Hebrew: מבצע שלמה, Mivtza Shlomo) was a covert Israeli military operation from May 24 to 25, 1991, to airlift Ethiopian Jews to Israel. [1] Non-stop flights of 35 Israeli aircraft, including Israeli Air Force C-130s and El Al Boeing 747s, transported 14,325 Ethiopian Jews to Israel in 36 hours.