Word: arlosoroff
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...zone. An American Jew, an official of UNRRA, smuggled him through to the Bergen-Belsen D.P. camp as an attendant on a trainload of pregnant women. He then found his way to Italy where, with 1,500 other Jews, he boarded the illegal immigrant ship Haim Arlosoroff...
...British ships blocked the path of the Haim Arlosoroff as it came into sight of the Promised Land. When British troops came on board, Abraham split off a three-foot length of lifeboat oar and fought back with the others. The British subdued the immigrants with tear gas and water from firehoses, deported them to Cyprus...
...minesweepers closed in, radioing their position to shore stations and to a nearby group of destroyers. From the rail of the Arlosoroff the immigrants shouted taunts as 13 British sailors drew up alongside and swung aboard. The sailors met a wall of wild-eyed men & women, most of them young and strong. Disregarding the sailors' guns and tear-gas grenades the Jews waded in, overpowered the British sailors, flung them into...
Soon came more boarding parties, heavily armed. Fierce fights broke out as the immigrants refused to permit the British Navy to take over. While passengers clawed and pummeled the sailors, the ship zigzagged through converging Navy craft. Finally the Arlosoroff scraped aground, just 100 yards off Bat Galim, Haifa's seashore suburb. Behind the barbed wire on the beach, hundreds of Jews waved handkerchiefs at the immigrants, cheered as a dozen leaped overboard and struggled ashore-to certain capture. On the ship the fight continued...
...bomb soon after the ship's interception (two Jews were killed). Then they ran into tough, maroon-bereted British paratroopers, who barred their way. Jews and soldiers traded insults. Then the Jews went away into the dusk of Sabbath eve. Four hours after the first encounter aboard the Arlosoroff the fight went out of the immigrants on the ship...