Operation Ezra and Nehemiah מבצע עזרא ונחמיה
The 1951 to 1952 airlift of about 120,000 Jews from Iraq, after Iraq let them leave on condition that they give up their citizenship. Their property was frozen and most arrived with almost nothing. It ended a community that had lived in Babylon and its successors for some 2,600 years. The operation is named for Ezra and Nehemiah, who led the Return from Babylon.Continue ▸
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