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[[File:Op Magic Carpet (Yemenites).jpg|right|thumb|260px|Yemenite Jews en route to Israel from [[Aden]], [[Yemen]]]]

'''Operation Magic Carpet''' is a widely known nickname for '''Operation On Wings of Eagles''' ({{lang-he|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]].<ref>[http://www.moia.gov.il/English/FeelingIsrael/AboutIsrael/Pages/kanfeyNesharim.aspx Ministry of immigrant absorption, Israel: ''"On Eagles' Wings" – Aliyah from Yemen (1949)''.] Retrieved 23 June 2012.</ref> During its course, the overwhelming majority of Yemenite Jews – some 47,000 from Yemen, 1,500 from [[Aden]], as well as 500 from [[History of the Jews in Djibouti|Djibouti]] and [[History of the Jews in Eritrea|Eritrea]] and some 2,000 Jews from [[Saudi Arabia]] – were airlifted to Israel. [[United Kingdom|British]] and [[United States|American]] transport planes made some 380 flights from Aden.''

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