![]() ![]() The Atlalena had left France with desperately needed weapons and equipment for use in Israel’s month-old War of Independence - some 5,000 rifles, 300 light machine guns and millions of rounds of ammunition.Īs chronicled by Thomas G. Fighters of the Irgun, the Jewish underground in Mandate Palestine then led by future premier Menachem Begin, had beached a cargo ship, the Altalena, on a sandbar. It happened on Joff the coast of Tel Aviv. ![]() These words, written by Dr Israel Eldad in The First Tithe (2008), reflect on a particularly dark episode in the history of the State of Israel - one about which many Jews are ignorant and others have tried hard to forget. And where is the great artist who will paint Ben Gurion’s face as he gave the order, and the face of Yitzchak Sadeh and the face of Galili and the face of the man who fired the artillery and the faces of the Palmach men and women who danced and sang in the cars returning from the slaughter, as they drove down to Ben Yehuda and Allenby streets in Tel Aviv. ![]()
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