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Aliyah Bet (Hebrew: עלייה ב', "Aliyah 'B'" – bet being the second letter of the Hebrew alphabet) was the code name given to illegal immigration by Jews, many of whom were refugees escaping from Nazi Germany or other Nazi-controlled countries, [1] [2] and later Holocaust survivors, [1] [3] [4] to Mandatory Palestine between 1920 and 1948, [1] in violation of the restrictions laid out in ...
The Mossad LeAliyah Bet (Hebrew: המוסד לעלייה ב', lit. ' Institution for Immigration B ' ) was a branch of the paramilitary organization Haganah in British Mandatory Palestine , and later the State of Israel , that operated to facilitate Jewish immigration to British Palestine.
The illegal immigration was known as Aliyah Bet ("secondary immigration"), or Ha'apalah, and was organized by the Mossad Le'aliyah Bet, as well as by the Irgun. Immigration was done mainly by sea, and to a lesser extent overland through Iraq and Syria.
July 21 – A Haganah raid knocked out a British radar station in Haifa that was being used to track Aliyah Bet ships. Elsewhere, mortar shells were fired at the headquarters of the British 1st Infantry Division in Tel Litwinsky, a British staff car near Netanya was fired on, and a British soldier was killed when his truck hit a mine near Raanana.
This category includes members of Aliyah Bet, the code name for the illegal immigration of Jews to Mandatory Palestine between 1939 and 1948. Many of these immigrants were refugees fleeing Nazi Germany and later Holocaust survivors , entering in violation of the restrictions set by the British White Paper of 1939.
Bricha was part of the larger operation known as Aliyah Bet, and ended with the establishment of Israel, after which immigration to the Jewish state was legal, although emigration was still sometimes prohibited, as happened in both the Eastern Bloc and Arab countries (see for example refusenik).
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The fourth and separate special organization created by the Haganah in 1937 was the Mossad LeAliyah Bet (Hebrew המוסד לעלייה ב') [Note 1] or simply Aliyah Bet, which dealt with the illegal immigration of Jews to Palestine. The establishment of the State of Israel, as it turned out, did not solve the problem of legalizing the ...