Mossad le-Aliyah Bet

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The Mossad le-Aliyah Bet was an organisation founded by the Haganah in 1937 to bring Jewish migrants to Mandate Palestine in violation of British imposed immigration controls.[1][2]

Operation Magic Carpet

In 1948 and 1949, the Near East Aircraft Corporation, an American airline with close ties to the Israeli government flew 50,000 Jews from Aden and Yemen to Israel.[3]

Operation Ezra and Nehemiah

Between 1950 and 1952, Near East Aircraft Corporation flew nearly 150,000 Iraqi Jews to Israel.[4]

Disbandment

Aliya B was disbanded in 1952. Responsibility for covert immigration from Arab countries passed to Mossad under Reuven Shiloah.[5]

People

Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 Early Operations of Israeli Intelligence, The Jewish Agency for Israel, accessed 18 January 2013.
  2. Yossi Melman and Dan Raviv, Every Spy a Prince: The Secret History of Israel's Intelligence Community, Houghton Mifflin, 1991, p.19.
  3. Yossi Melman and Dan Raviv, Every Spy a Prince: The Secret History of Israel's Intelligence Community, Houghton Mifflin, 1991, p.36.
  4. Yossi Melman and Dan Raviv, Every Spy a Prince: The Secret History of Israel's Intelligence Community, Houghton Mifflin, 1991, p.37.
  5. Yossi Melman and Dan Raviv, Every Spy a Prince: The Secret History of Israel's Intelligence Community, Houghton Mifflin, 1991, pp.38-39.
  6. Yossi Melman and Dan Raviv, Every Spy a Prince: The Secret History of Israel's Intelligence Community, Houghton Mifflin, 1991, p.26.
  7. Yossi Melman and Dan Raviv, Every Spy a Prince: The Secret History of Israel's Intelligence Community, Houghton Mifflin, 1991, p.33.
  8. Yossi Melman and Dan Raviv, Every Spy a Prince: The Secret History of Israel's Intelligence Community, Houghton Mifflin, 1991, p.36.
  9. Yossi Melman and Dan Raviv, Every Spy a Prince: The Secret History of Israel's Intelligence Community, Houghton Mifflin, 1991, p.105.
  10. Yossi Melman and Dan Raviv, Every Spy a Prince: The Secret History of Israel's Intelligence Community, Houghton Mifflin, 1991, pp.225-226.