February 25, 2018, Updated April 21, 2020
Some 49,000 endangered Yemenite Jews, and some from countries including Saudi Arabia, are airlifted to Israel in a secret operation involving 380 flights by British and American transport planes taking off from Aden.
A young Yemenite nurse reading to new immigrants at a camp in Rosh Ha’ayin. Photo from the National Photo Collection of Israel, GPO
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