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    Altalena Affair

    1944 Aliyah Bet ship, on which violent confrontation between the Israel Defense Forces and the Irgun (IZL) took place in 1948

    This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict. The Altalena Affair was a violent confrontation that took place in June 1948 between the newly created Israel Defense Forces and the Irgun, one of the Jewish paramilitary groups that were in the process of merging to form the IDF. The confrontation involved a cargo ship, the Altalena, captained by ex-US Navy lieutenant Monroe Fein and led by senior Etzel commander Eliyahu Lankin, which had been loaded with weapons and fighters by the independent Irgun, but arrived during the murky period of the Irgun's absorption into the IDF. Nineteen Israelis, three of them IDF soldiers and 16 of them Irgun members, were killed in the confrontation. The incident brought the newfound Israel to the brink of civil war. Wikipedia

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  2. en.wikipedia.org

    The Altalena Affair was a violent confrontation that took place in June 1948 between the newly created Israel Defense Forces and the Irgun (also known as Etzel), one of the Jewish paramilitary groups that were in the process of merging to form the IDF. The confrontation involved a cargo ship, the Altalena, captained by ex-US Navy lieutenant Monroe Fein and led by senior Etzel commander Eliyahu ...
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  4. jewishvirtuallibrary.org

    The Altalena, purchased by Irgun members abroad, was originally intended to reach Israel on May 15, 1948, loaded with fighters and military equipment. Weapons purchase and organizational matters took longer than expected, however, and the sailing was postponed for several weeks.
  5. blog.nli.org.il

    The Altalena affair remains one of the most controversial episodes in the history of the State of Israel | The Altalena's sinking was the climax of a dramatic internal crisis that lasted for three tense days | An in-depth examination of the sequence of events offers a more complex picture | Featuring new photos of the curfew enforced in Tel Aviv
  6. worldjewishcongress.org

    On 20 June 1948, soldiers in the newly created Israel Defense Forces opened fire on a Jewish ship, the Altalena, destroying it and thousands of weapons, and killing other Jewish soldiers. The incident, which become known as the Altalena Affair, left nearly two dozen Jewish soldiers dead and almost led to a civil war.
  7. encyclopedia.com

    ALTALENA. Armed IZL ship sunk by the Israel Defense Force on 22 June 1948 on Tel Aviv's shore.. Purchased in America in 1947 by an official of the Irgun Zva ʾ i Le ʾ umi (IZL) and renamed Altalena, Ze ʾ ev Jabotinsky's Italian pen name, the 1,820-ton landing craft was at first used to carry European refugees to Palestine.It became a transporter of arms for the Irgunists following the United ...
  8. tandfonline.com

    May 1, 2023Every so often, the ghost of the Altalena comes back to haunt Israel and inflame public passions. In June 1948, a few weeks after the establishment of the State of Israel and during the first truce in the War of Independence, a ship laden with arms and newcomers was sent from France by the ETZEL, one of Israel's pre-state military underground groups.
  9. educator.jewishedproject.org

    "Do not shoot back!" With these words, Menachem Begin believed he ensured there would be no civil war. This video delves into a wild episode in Israel's early history: the 1948 Altalena Affair. As the ship, nicknamed the Altalena (meaning seesaw in Italian and a pseudonym for Ze'ev Jabotinsky, leader of the Revisionist Zionists) approached Israel's shores during the War of ...

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