Magic Carpet 2009 – 16 Jews arrived in Eretz Yisrael from Yemen, three families. Their exact route remains classified as government officials do not wish to compromise this route for other families working to make their way home.
Jewish Agency for Israel officials explain there are still some 250 Jews in Yemen and information that may reveal in any way the efforts to bring them to Eretz Yisrael must remain classified for the good of all concerned, especially those still in Yemen seeking to leave.
The scene at Ben-Gurion International Airport on Sunday afternoon was an emotional one, with the new arrivals stepping into the terminal with their traditional Yemenite garb — families seeing one another for the first time in many years.
The new immigrants will begin their new lives in a Jewish Agency absorption center in Beersheva.
(Yechiel Spira – YWN Israel)
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The Jewish Agency is the the Great Satan for Yemenite Jews. These immigrants should remember what the Agency did to their earlier generation in the 50’s and 60’s.
They arrived in Israel paid in part by the State of Israel. To you galut Jews- wake up we have a Jewish State.
Good news; but weren’t the rest supposed to be out by last Pesach?