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Post-war and Arab world (1945–1970)

Operation 'Flying Carpet'

1949-1950·Yémen

Toll
~49 000 départs

The toll is reproduced exactly as the source states it — never rounded, never added to another. Tolls overlap from one event to the next.

after years of dhimmi status and riots, almost the entire community is evacuated to Israel

The Jews of Yemen had lived for centuries under the status of dhimmi, subject to a specific tax, to restrictions on dress, and to a decree imposing the conversion of orphans. The Aden riots of the late 1940s and the proclamation of the State of Israel made their situation finally untenable.

The imam authorized their departure. Families made their way on foot to the assembly camps in Aden, often after weeks of marching and at the cost of many deaths along the way, before being airlifted to Israel. The operation, known as "Magic Carpet," lasted less than a year.

It emptied Yemen of virtually its entire Jewish population, one of the oldest in the world, whose liturgical and manuscript tradition had developed apart from the great rabbinical centers.

Period :
Post-war and Arab world (1945–1970)
Type :
Pogrom
Region :
Near and Middle East
Country :
Yémen
Sources

Tudor Parfitt, *The Road to Redemption* ; Encyclopaedia Judaica.

At the same place2

  1. v. 1165-1172Persecutions and conversion pressures; Maimonides addresses the « Epistle to Yemen » to threatened Jewstoll not established
  2. 1679-1680Exile of Mawza~2/3 des exilés morts

In the same country3

  1. 1922Forced Conversion of Orphanstoll not established
  2. 2-4 déc. 1947Pogrom76-82
  3. Juin 1967Riots after the Six-Day Warquelques morts

Event 2274 of 2483, in chronological order · Post-war and Arab world (1945–1970): 80 events in the catalogue