Operation Ezra and Nehemiah

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Operation Ezra and Nehemiah was the early-1950s Israeli airlift that relocated most of Iraq’s Jewish community to the newly established State of Israel.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf airlift operation
mass immigration operation
affectedCommunity Iraqi Jews
surface form: Jewish community of Baghdad

Iraqi Jews
surface form: Jewish community of Basra
alsoKnownAs Operation Ali Baba
carriedOutDuring post-1948 Arab–Israeli conflict period
country Israel
endTime 1952
hasAftermath integration of Iraqi Jews into Israeli society
hasContext early years of the State of Israel
persecution and restrictions on Jews in Iraq
hasEthnicFocus Iraqi Jews
Mizrahi Jews
hasHistoricalSignificance major component of Mizrahi Jewish immigration to Israel
implementedBy Israeli Ministry of the Interior
surface form: Israeli Ministry of Immigration

Israeli Ministry of Transport and Road Safety
surface form: Israeli Ministry of Transportation
isRelatedTo Aliyah Bet
Iraqi Jews
surface form: History of Jews in Iraq

Jewish exodus from Arab and Muslim countries
languageOfName Hebrew
legalFramework Iraqi denaturalization law of 1950
namedAfter Ezra
Nehemiah
notableConsequence decline of Jewish population in Iraq to a small remnant
establishment of large Iraqi Jewish community in Israel
numberOfPeopleTransported over 120000
operatedIn Baghdad
Basra
Iraq
Israel
organisedBy government of Israel
surface form: Government of Israel

Jewish Agency for Palestine
surface form: Jewish Agency for Israel
partOf Aliyah to Israel
surface form: Aliyah of Middle Eastern and North African Jews
purpose rescue of Jewish community from Iraq
to bring Iraqi Jews to Israel
relocated Iraqi Jews
relocatedFrom Iraq
relocatedTo Israel
surface form: State of Israel
result near-total emigration of Iraqi Jews to Israel
significantEvent mass exodus of Jews from Iraq
startTime 1950
timePeriod early 1950s
typeOfMigration forced migration
mass emigration
usedTransportMode aircraft
airlift

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Iraqi Jews massAliyahPeriod Operation Ezra and Nehemiah
Operation Magic Carpet relatedTo Operation Ezra and Nehemiah