Operation Ezra and Nehemiah

The moshav was founded in 1953 by refugees from Iraq on Operation Ezra and Nehemiah.

In "Operation Ezra and Nehemiah" the Israeli government helped airlift Jews from Iraq to Israel.

The vast majority of Iraqi Jews were transferred to Israel in the early 1950s in Operation Ezra and Nehemiah.

Until Operation Ezra and Nehemiah there were 28 Jewish educational institutions in Baghdad, 16 under the supervision of the community committee and the rest privately run.

The first group of Iraqi Jews arrived in Tel Aviv, marking the beginning of Operation Ezra and Nehemiah.

Religion often determines which countries the Iraqi people will apply asylum for, decades ago most of the Iraqi Jews fled to Israel through Operation Ezra and Nehemiah.

Most of the 10,000 Jews remaining after Operation Ezra and Nehemiah stayed through the Abdul Karim Qassim era when conditions improved, but Anti-Semitism increased during the rule of the Aref brothers.

An example is when in the early 1950s, the Iraqi government granted permission to its 120,000 Jewish citizens to leave (Operation Ezra and Nehemiah), conditional on their renouncing their citizenship and leaving behind all their properties and assets.

The airline was involved in several covert operations: In the early 1950s, El Al airlifted over 160,000 immigrants to Israel from India, Iran, Iraq and Yemen as part of Operation Magic Carpet and Operation Ezra and Nehemiah.

And aiding the massive logistical effort that it took to organize Operation Ezra and Nehemiah, the airlift of Iraqi Jews to Israel, were the young generations of Iraqi Jews which had joined the ICP and Zionists after the Farhud.