In November 1917, the British government published the Balfour Declaration, favoring the establishment of a national Jewish homeland in Palestine. But as the years went by Arab pressure caused the ...
Atlit is a small Israeli town on the Mediterranean Sea, twelve miles south of Haifa. Due to its natural large bay–second only to Haifa–the site was inhabited as early as the Canaanite and Israelite ...
The Atlit detainee camp, located near the coastal town of Atlit just south of Haifa, was a detention camp established in the 1930s by the British to prevent Jewish refugees, mainly Holocaust survivors ...
How testimonies preserved in the Atlit Detention Camp Information Center tell the incredible story of the Ingathering of the Exiles and a Return to Zion through the voices of survivors. Survivors of ...
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As the numbers of ma'apilim increased, the British opened detention camps for those who sere caught. The largest of the detention camps was Atlit; less than twenty kilometers south of Haifa. The site ...
A new exhibition supported by JNF-USA at the Atlit Detention Camp heritage site, shows the dangerous journey of 1,000 Jewish orphans from Poland to pre-state Israel via Iran. In 1939, 1,000 Jewish ...
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