June: Start of “Operation Magic Carpet” (Yemen to Israel) – to bring 49,000 Yemenite Jews to Israel over 15–month–period…on 380 Israeli, British and American flights from British Colony of Aden (a port in Yemen) in a secret operation…a.k.a. “Operation On Wings of Eagles” (al Kanfei Nesharim).
[Not to be confused with the immediately post–WWII “45–46” major US Navy transport operation of the same name (Magic Carpet) bringing the US troops back to the USA from Europe and the Pacific.]