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Near East Air Transport (NEAT) was a briefly prominent partially US airline that played a key role in two major operations transporting migrants to Israel in the early years of that state. The name covered two US corporations with overlapping management and ownership:Near East Air Transport, Inc. (NEATI) was a US airline that in August 1949 assumed the Middle East operation of Alaska Airlines flying Yemenite Jews to Israel, after the US government forced Alaska out for severe safety and regulatory violations.
Near East Air Transport, overseas Inc. (NEATO) was a front formed to fly Iraqi Jews to Israel 1950–1951. Nominally US, NEATO was controlled by Israeli carrier El Al and the state of Israel. Some Israeli agents used NEAT cover for this operation. NEAT also served to control the rate of Iraqi migration.
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