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A ship carrying arms for a right-wing militia, the Altalena was sunk 78 years ago off the coast of Tel Aviv at the orders of Israel’s founders. The discovery of its wreckage last week has given the ...

Netanyahu's plan to raise the Altalena wreck is designed to revive a political myth, redirect Israel's election debate and evade judgment over his own record.

The Irgun vessel will serve as a “tangible symbol” of the imperative to never descend into civil war, the Israeli premier ...

Ben-Gvir publicized the find without informing Netanyahu or Defense Minister Israel Katz, surprising both men, a detail that quickly fed speculation about tensions between the coalition partners.

Historic ship at center of one of Israel's most painful early confrontations is located at a depth of 503 meters after months of searching.

On June 22, 1948, a Tuesday, a ship with some 200 tons of military equipment in its hold, mainly half-tracks and dynamite, ...

The Altalena affair marked a tumultuous chapter in the birth of the new nation of Israel. In the early days of the War of Independence, the fledgling state mourned the loss of 1,176 soldiers, while ...

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed Monday to raise the wreckage of the Altalena, the Irgun arms ship shelled during Israel’s 1948 War of Independence, after its remains were located off the ...

The Altalena affair has gone down in the annals of Jewish history as the moment a civil war was averted. A mere five weeks after declaring statehood, Jew was fighting Jew. It was Palmach vs. Irgun.

IDF says it had no part in search for Irgun ship sunk by army of nascent state; 16 Irgun members, 3 IDF troops died in incident that became right-wing symbol; chances of lifting still-intact vessel ...