Word: haifa
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Early in the afternoon of Sabbath eve two British minesweepers spotted their quarry entering Palestine's territorial waters near Haifa. She was a battered, 750-ton freighter jampacked with 1,350 Jewish refugees from Europe bent on entering the Holy Land. She had had a long, hard voyage-30 days from Goteborg, Sweden, which she had cleared as a Greek ship (the Ulua), bound for South America. Now she flew the blue-and-white Zionist flag and her bridge carried a freshly painted name: Chaim Arlosoroff (in honor of a murdered Palestine labor leader...
...spite of the impending strife, Jews from Europe were still trying to find homes in Palestine. Last week 650 refugees, packed on a schooner off Haifa, hurled bottles and belaying pins at 100 British soldiers who boarded the ship to prevent illegal immigration...
...Near Haifa, a British Bren gun carrier struck a road mine, turned over. Casualties: one British officer, three enlisted men, all killed...
...Help for the U.S. Arabian-American can use some financial help to exploit the Arabian pool. It has already spent an estimated $200 million on its concessions. Now it plans to spend $125 million on a 26-inch pipeline running 1,200 miles northwest from the Persian Gulf to Haifa to save the long haul by tanker through...
...Kill Me Now!" The refugee ship dodged and turned, but, after 48 hours, gave up. Then, surrounded by the three destroyers, two police boats and a tug, the captive Jewish Assembly, flying blue-and-white Zionist flags, entered Haifa harbor. As it gently nosed to the quay, there was a strange silence on its packed decks. Grenadier guardsmen, unarmed and unhelmeted, stood by with ambulances. Guardsmen, led by an officer, climbed the gangplank...