From 1950 to 1956, EL AL flew more than 160,000 immigrants from Yemen, Iran and India to Israel, as part of Operation Magic Carpet and Operation Ezra and Nehemia. Towards the end of the decade, in 1958, EL AL operated its first regular flights to West Germany (Cologne) and Munich and in 1959 it operated flights to Teheran as well. In that year the airline introduced inflight telephone service, the first of its type in international flights over the ocean.