Why Did American Jews Smuggle Guns Into Palestine?
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Following the 1948 U.S. arms embargo on Israel leading up to the Israeli War of Independence, Harry Levine and 18 other American Jews accepted David Ben-Gurion’s plea and began a secret and extremely complicated operation to smuggle weapons overseas to the Haganah. This operation was possibly the most organized global joint effort the Jewish people had ever made.
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