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White T-shirt with the words "Don't Worry, Be Yemen" and an image of a traditionally dressed Yemenite (Temini) Jew on the front, and a whimsical "Original Yemenite" logo on the back.
Between June 1949 and September 1950, 49,000 Yemenite Jews were brought from Yemen to the new state of Israel in a secret operation which was not made public until several months later. Operation On Wings of Eagles, or Operation Magic Carpet, involved some 380 flights from Aden, using British and American transport planes.
Following the 1947 UN Partition Plan in which a Jewish State in Palestine was declared, Muslim rioters engaged in clashes in Aden that killed 82 people and destroyed a number of Jewish homes. Early in 1948, the accusation of the murder of two Muslim Yemeni girls led to looting of Jewish property. Aden's Jewish community was economically paralyzed, as most of the Jewish stores and businesses were destroyed.
In response to the increasingly perilous situation, most of the Yemenite Jewish community secretly emigrated to Israel between June 1949 and September 1950 in Operation Magic Carpet. The overwhelming majority of Yemenite Jews were airlifted to Israel. Most of them had never seen an aircraft before. They were uprooted from their ways of life as farmers and had to adapt to a totally new way of life in a new world.