It appears that only one Israeli pilot has ever landed an aircraft on an aircraft carrier. In occurred shortly after the Middle East crisis of 1958 when unrest gripped several Arab countries. The United States landed 6,000 Marines and 8,000 soldiers in Lebanon to help stabilize the local political situation. The initial air support for the “peaceful” U.S. troop landings was provided by carrier-based aircraft from the Sixth Fleet.

In the aftermath of the crisis, the Sixth Fleet continued to operate in the eastern Mediterranean, with carriers conducting around-the-clock operations.

During those problematic days, a strange carrier landing occurred. The United States recently had provided Israel with Sikorsky S-58 helicopters, which were designated HSS-1 in U.S. Navy service and HUS-1 in Marine Corps service. On 28 July 1958, a young pilot named Uri Yarom, one of Israel's first helicopter pilots, took off from an airfield in an S-58 to pick up a seaman whose eye had been injured in an accident on a merchant ship in the eastern Mediterranean.