| Operation Tarnegol | |||||||
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| Part of the Suez Crisis | |||||||
 Israeli Air Force Gloster Meteor NF. 13 | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
 Israel |
 Egypt | ||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
| Dan Tolkovsky | |||||||
| Strength | |||||||
| 1 Gloster Meteor NF. 13 | 1 Ilyushin Il-14 | ||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||
| none | 1 Illyushin II-14 shot down, 18 dead | ||||||
Operation Tarnegol (Hebrew: תרנגול, lit. 'Rooster') was an Israeli Air Force operation carried out on the eve of the 1956 Suez Crisis. It witnessed an Israeli Gloster Meteor NF.13 intercept and destroy an Egyptian Ilyushin Il-14 carrying high-ranking members of the Egyptian General Staff en route from Syria to Egypt.