This is the story of a ship that was one of the first vessels of the Israeli Navy in its infancy. The experiences of a ship which is not remembered enough, although it took part in the corps’ missions in the years immediately following the establishment of the State of Israel.
Commander Benjamin Halpern Background Benjamin Halpern was born in 1908 in Brooklyn, New York. When he was very young his parents came to
The story of Heine Fliegler By Daniel Fiegler My father was someone who took risks when he thought the cause was right, Even as a child
SOME 70 years ago, I was among a group of men who who sailed on a ship named Hatikvah (The Hope) to British
1939 … It is becoming increasingly urgent to completely halt all Jewish immigration to Palestine. But hisMajesty’s government cannot be resolved to make
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(Editor – you can watch the film Waves of Freedom below this article. November 10, 2021) By Yocheved Miriam Russo (Jerusalem Post)16th October,
by Renato Barahona In the spring of 1948, Israeli agents of Haganah, the main Jewish underground in Palestine, bought the cargo ship S.S.
In early 1946 I was the radio officer on a troopship bringing home US Army soldiers stationed in Germany. The ship’s electrician was
The Hebrew name for this blockade-running ship, “Geulah” (Redemption), showed there was no conspiracy involved in it; its purchase was legal in America,
After graduating from Medical School at the University of Chicago and serving an internship at a hospital in Huntington, West Virginia, Eugene Plass
I was born in 1922 in Seattle, USA. I came from a family with a strong Zionist feeling; my father was born in
I was one of the “Seattle Three” – the others were Bailey Nieder and Syd Abrams – who enlisted in Aliyah Bet and
Jack (Yaakov) Pleet was born in Ottawa, Canada on 13th January 1919. His father was Harry Pleet, who arrived in Canada from the
I was born in Chicago on 30th March, 1925 to Rose and Nathan Brownstein. I was drafted as I was finishing high school
I was born in Los Angeles in 1928 and from the age of 13 I was a member of Habonim and participated in
My name is Eugene D. Alexander (Gene) and my Aliyah Bet name was Mickey, sometimes Mickey Mouse. The Ma’apilim said that I looked
I was born in Baltimore, Maryland on 17th July 1923, and was brought up in a strongly Zionist-oriented background. My parents were very
I was born at the West End of Boston, Massachusetts on 3rd April 1924. Both my parents came from the vicinity of Kovno,
As the Hebrew name for this blockade-running ship, the Aliyah Bet showed, it was not a matter of conspiracy. Everything was done legally
Rudy Patzert in 1946 Rudolf Ward Patzert was born in New York City in 1911; his family subsequently moved to Florida. In
