Aliya Bet & Rekhesh Website

The Commander Yehuda Ben-tzur
ALIYA BET & REKHESH WEBSITE
The Maritime History Of The Struggle For Israel's Independence
[ Aliya Bet - clandestine immigration, Rekhesh - arms procurement and smuggling of arms to Israel ]

Aliya Bet	The Palyam	Ha'Mossad Le'Aliya Bet
The Gideons	Naval Sabotage	The Arms Ships
Veterans' Stories	MACHAL	Ha'Chavura
The Birth of the Israeli Navy	Arrests & Detentions	Land Warfare
Foundation Setters	Palyam & Aliya Bet Songs	Remember The Fallen

Hagana Ship Theodor Hertzl in Haifa port after her interception by the British

The protest of the ma'apilim aboard the 'Theodor Hertzl' against the British

The Hagana ship The Jewish State

Ma'apilim from 'Exodus': again in Germany behind barbed wire, again defiant

“People who don’t respect their past have dull present and uncertain future”, Yigal Alon

Presentation: Aliya Bet after WW-II

In Remembrance: Aliya Bet

The SOH Collection Of
Israeli Stamps

Recently published (click on article name):
(1) The Palyam - Servant and Samurai of Aliya Bet
(2) The story of Dromit (Kefalos): smuggling arms from the USA & Mexico to Israel
(3) The arms and Gachal ship 'Altalena'
(4) The story of Lenny Sklar, a volunteer aboard the Exodus
(5) The affair of The Pan Ships
(6) The story of David Gotllieb, a volunteer aboard the Josiah Wedgwood
(7) Details of Aliya Bet voyages after WW-II
(8) Aliya Bet During WW II: The Episode of the Vessel “Lili”
(9) Aliya of American Pioneers, 1939-48
(10) In Remembrance: Aliya Bet & The Palyam
(11) Captain Steve tells his story
(12) Golda Meir tells the story of the early release of 2,000 babies with their parents from the Cyprus detention camps
(13) The Tragic Story of Hagana Ship Rafiah
(14) A criticism of the movie "Waves of Freedom"
(15) The saga of Shlomo Reichmann, a 10 day-old "Illegal" Immigrant on board the Rafiah
(16) The La Spezia Affair, 1946
(17) The Czechoslovak Arms Deals
(18) The Procurement Enterprise & The Arms Ships
(19) Mario Kenda - An Italian Ally In The Clandestine Immigration and Arms Procurement Enterprises

	Recomended documentary: Long Way Home (Directed by Mark Jonathan Harris)
	Recomended documentary: Nous etions l'Exodus We Were Exodus (film de Jean-Michel Vecchiet)
	THE ILLEGALS Docu-drama depicting the clandestine voyage of Holocaust survivors to Eretz Israel
	Recomended book: The Pledge By: Leonard Slater The campaign to equip the people of Israel with arms
	Recomended book: Underground To Palestine By: I. F. Stone
	Recomended book: Exodus 1947 - The Ship That Launched A Nation By: Ruth Gruber
	Recomended book: Running the Palestine Blockade: The Last Voyage of the Paducah ('Geula') By: Capt Rudolph Patzert
	Recomended book: The Odyssey of the Ship with Three Names (Kefalos - Pinzon - Dromit) By: Renato Barahona
	Click here for a comprehensive list of books (in Hebrew, but includes English titles)

באתר מפורסמים סיפורים אישיים רבים; אין למערכת האתר אפשרות לאמת את כל פרטיהם ולכן הכתוב בהם באחריות בלעדית של כותביהם.