Operation Magic Carpet
Operation Magic Carpet is a widely known nickname for Operation On Wings of Eagles (, Kanfei Nesharim), an operation between June 1949 and September 1950 that brought 49,000 Yemenite Jews to the new state of Israel.Ministry of Immigrant Absorption: On Eagles’ Wings” – Aliyah from Yemen (1949): Retrieved 23 June 2012 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.