Image: Altalena off Tel-Aviv beach
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Description: June 1948. The ship Altalena on fire after being shelled near Tel-Aviv. Altalena was a ship of the right wing zionist organisation “Irgoun”, which tried to give weapons to the fighters of irgoun in Isel. The Israeli government refused the existence of weapons furnitures without the control of IDF, and fought against the boat.
Title: Altalena off Tel-Aviv beach
Credit: Source: Slater, Elinor & Robert Great Moments in Jewish History, (Jonathan David Publishers, 1998) ISBN 0824604083, p.205 (Moments of Despair)
Author: Hans Pinn
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