Most of Yemenite Jews had never seen an airplane before, but they believed in the Biblical prophecy: according to the Book of Isaiah (40:31), God promised to return the children of Israel to Zion "with wings".
the post-World War II effort by the United States Navy to bring troops home from Europe and the Pacific. Hundreds of Navy ships were involved; everything from aircraft carriers and battleships down to tenders and auxiliaries were outfitted with thousands of extra bunks, and made multiple round trips during 1945 and 1946.
Most of Yemenite Jews had never seen an airplane before, but they believed in the Biblical prophecy: according to the Book of Isaiah (40:31), God promised to return the children of Israel to Zion "with wings".
Hundreds of Navy ships were involved; everything from aircraft carriers and battleships down to tenders and auxiliaries were outfitted with thousands of extra bunks, and made multiple round trips during 1945 and 1946.
OperationMagicCarpet (Yemen): a clandestine [1] operation between June 1949 and September 1950 to transport Jews from Yemen to Israel.
OperationMagicCarpet was an operation between June 1949 and September 1950 that brought 45,000 Jews from Yemen to the new state of 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.
In the course of Operation"MagicCarpet" (1949–1950), the majority of Yemenite Jews (about 49,000) immigrated to Israel.
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