Operation Magic Carpet in 10 MInutes

In a dramatic secret airlift between 1949 and 1950, Operation Magic Carpet—also known as "On the Wings of Eagles"—rescued nearly fifty thousand Yemenite Jews from a life of isolation, poverty, and rising danger, ferrying an entire ancient community across the Arabian skies to the newborn State of Israel. For the Jewish people it stands as one of the most stirring chapters of the Ingathering of the Exiles: families who had never seen an airplane stepped onto makeshift airstrips in Aden and emerged hours later in the Promised Land, fulfilling the biblical vision of return while closing the long chapter of Jewish life in Yemen and weaving a vivid legend of faith, daring, and national rebirth into the early story of Israel.