Operation Magic Carpet

Israel marks national day of commemoration for Yemenite Jewish aliyah

Education Ministry officials promised that, in addition to creating educational resources, the ministry is “trying to instill in teachers sensitivity to the different ethnic backgrounds."

|ByLEO FEIERBERG BETTER
Jews from Yemen are seen heading to Israel during Operation Magic Carpet.
SOME OF the Operation Magic Carpet group and their pets in Islamabad eagerly await entry to a third country.

Operation Magic Carpet: Helping people, animals flee Afghanistan

These efforts have helped at least 92 Afghans and foreigners, and a bunch of domestic animals, make it to relative safety across the border to Pakistan.

|ByBARRY DAVIS
YEMENITE JEWS are seen on a plane traveling to Lod airport as part of Operation Magic Carpet in 1949

On This Day: The conclusion of Operation Magic Carpet

Some 380 flights carried the olim to Israel, prompted by a pogrom in the British Colony of Aden following the 1947 UN Partition Plan.

|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
The JSO in concert

Grapevine, July 2, 2021: Save the JSO

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

|ByGREER FAY CASHMAN

Wings of Eagles: Israel’s multiple airlifts and sealifts

Seventy years after their launch, Israel’s multiple airlifts and sealifts of distressed Jews defy modern immigration’s increasingly troubled course.

NOVEMBER 11, 2018ByAMOTZ ASA-EL
A family of Jewish immigrants from Yemen arrives at Lod Airport on the Operation Magic Carpet airlift, November 17, 1949

Celebrating centenarians

The occasion was a reception that he hosted at the President’s Residence for Israeli citizens aged 100 or more.

JULY 5, 2018ByGREER FAY CASHMAN
President Reuven Rivlin shakes hands with a man who is 100 years old

Here and there: Our past is our future – discovering roots

Seeing a four-year-old taking care of his two-year-old brother and witnessing a six-year-old looking after the family’s sheep took some time to absorb.

OCTOBER 4, 2017ByBRENDA KATTEN
PARTICIPANTS in the 2016 ‘Journey to Identity’ program cover some of the same ground in Ethiopia where their parents began their long and dangerous walk to Sudan.

On This Day, 1950: Final 'Operation Magic Carpet' airlift arrives in Israel

On September 25, 1950, The Jerusalem Post reported on the final airlift of Yemenite Jews to Israel - continue for the original report.

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017ByJPOST.COM STAFF
Front cover of The Jerusalem Post featuring Operation Magic Carpet, September 25, 1950