Last week 17 Yemenite Jews were brought to Israel in a covert operation similar to Operation Magic Carpet. The new citizens of Israel were rescued after increasing security threats and anti-Semitic incidents in Yemen.
“Jewish Agency chairman Natan Sharansky said: “Tonight we are privileged to engage in a mission that combined the saving of lives, the reunification of a family and immigration to Israel.”
JERUSALEM — As Egypt is convulsed by a quasi-civil war, Israel is urging the international community—and particularly Washington—to ease its pressures on the military-backed government in Cairo in order to avert chaos.
“The name of the game right now is not democracy,” an Israeli official told the Jerusalem Post yesterday. “After you put Egypt back on track, then talk about restarting the democratic process there.”