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Operation Ezra and Nehemiah - Airlift | | Operation Ezra and Nehemiah - Airlift: Encyclopedia II - Operation Ezra and Nehemiah - Airlift | | Waiting in Baghdad was a tense and difficult period. Some 50,000 Jews signed up in one month, and two months later there were 90,000 on the list. This mass movement stunned the Iraqi Government, which had not expected the number of immigrants to exceed 8,000, and feared that administrative institutions run by Jews might collapse. At the same time, the Zionist movement issued a manifesto calling on the Jews to sign up for immigration. It started with the following: "O, Zion, flee, daughter of Babylon," and concluded thus: ...
See also:Operation Ezra and Nehemiah, Operation Ezra and Nehemiah - Background, Operation Ezra and Nehemiah - Airlift, Operation Ezra and Nehemiah - Aftermath | | | Operation Ezra and Nehemiah, Operation Ezra and Nehemiah - Aftermath, Operation Ezra and Nehemiah - Airlift, Operation Ezra and Nehemiah - Background | | |
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Operation Ezra and Nehemiah - Airlift
Waiting in Baghdad was a tense and difficult period. Some 50,000 Jews signed up in one month, and two months later there were 90,000 on the list. This mass movement stunned the Iraqi Government, which had not expected the number of immigrants to exceed 8,000, and feared that administrative institutions run by Jews might collapse. At the same time, the Zionist movement issued a manifesto calling on the Jews to sign up for immigration. It started with the following: "O, Zion, flee, daughter of Babylon," and concluded thus: "Jews! Israel is calling you — come out of Babylon!"
The first planes flew to Israel via Cyprus in mid-May 1951. Several months later, a giant airlift operated directly from Baghdad to Lod airport. Operation Ezra and Nehemiah ended at the beginning of 1952, leaving only about 6,000 Jews in Iraq. Most of the 2,500-year-old Jewish community immigrated to Israel.
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