Altalena on fire after being shelled near Tel Aviv
Date
20 June – 23 June 1948
Location
Coast of Israel
Result
IDF victory
Belligerents
Israel Defense Forces
Irgun
Commanders and leaders
David Ben-Gurion Yigael Yadin
Menachem Begin Monroe Fein
Strength
unknown
800–900
Casualties and losses
3 killed
16 killed 200+ arrested
Model of the Altalena
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 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. The incident brought the newfound Israel to the brink of civil war.[1][2]
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^Ravid, Barak (23 June 2011). "Underwater search for sunken Altalena ship set to begin". Haaretz. Retrieved 26 June 2011. The Altalena lay on its side in shallow water off the coast of Tel Aviv for several months, but then Ben-Gurion ordered the navy to drag it out to sea and sink it.
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between Ben-Gurion and Begin, going back to the hostilities over the AltalenaAffair, underpinned the political dichotomy between Mapai and Herut. Begin...
the Altalenaaffair Moshe Hason, also listed by Lapidot as a High Commander during the AltalenaAffair. Abraham Stavsky, who procured the Altalena for...
newly created IDF. The affair came to an end when Altalena, the ship carrying the arms, was shelled by the IDF. Following the affair, all independent Irgun...
Minister, the Mapai leader David Ben-Gurion, which had begun over the AltalenaAffair, was evident in the Knesset. Ben-Gurion coined the phrase "without...
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independent unit was against the Irgun, in the AltalenaAffair. On 22 June 1948 the Irgun moored the Altalena, loaded with weapons, off Tel Aviv. Ben-Gurion...
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of fighting between the Israel Defense Forces and Irgun during the AltalenaAffair, in which the IDF stopped an Irgun attempt to import arms for its own...
Yishuv, setting it on the brink of a civil war, together with the Altalenaaffair. Others think that, by being a decisive step in establishing the Jewish...
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newly created IDF. The affair came to an end when Altalena, the ship carrying the arms, was shelled by the IDF. Following the affair, all independent Irgun...
loyalist warships. 1948 21 June 1948 AltalenaAffair – Israeli Defense Forces shell and disable the Irgun LST Altalena to prevent it from delivering its...
the Irgun on the beaches of Kfar Vitkin and Tel Aviv. Following the AltalenaAffair, Kook was arrested with four other senior Irgun commanders and held...
thought, not fighting against the Israel Defence Forces during the AltalenaAffair. He was also critical of the IDF for not fighting harder to conquer...
and produce the full score soundtrack for the movie "Altalena" - a movie about the AltalenaAffair from 1948. This led to the forming of a legal company...
Czechoslovakia AltalenaAffair — June 22, 1948 Irgun arms acquisition which led to Haganah's Operation Tihur (lit. Purifying) and the destruction of the Altalena ship...
decreed that their return would not violate the truce. Despite the Altalenaaffair, the Israeli authorities expressed an unequivocal support of their...
Struggle – Dr. Asael Lubotzky, Rohr Jewish Learning Institute. The AltalenaAffair Herut Members That Criticized Menachem Begin Tried by the Partys Tribunalr...
Yifrach. The organization organizes an annual ceremony commemorating the Altalenaaffair. During Israel-Hamas war, the organization was involved in various...
Irgun fighters and 3 IDF soldiers who perished in the 1948 sinking of the Altalena cargo ship was erected in the Nahalat Yitzhak Cemetery in 1998, where gravesites...
was assassinated in 1995, of having "murdered Holocaust survivors on the Altalena". The comments were disavowed by his father. He has compared Roni Alsheikh...
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