The good ship Exodus at Haifa harbor after having been overtaken by British soldiers. {Originally posted to the BESA website} July and August 2021 mark the 74th anniversary of the Exodus 1947 ship ...

As the converted river liner, the President Warfield, docked in France to accept its clandestine passengers, the archenemy of illegal immigration, British Foreign Minister Ernest Bevin, learned of the ...

WASHINGTON – Sixty years ago this summer, the Exodus 1947 sailed from Marseilles, France, with 4,500 passengers, most survivors of the Holocaust, and began another horrific chapter in Holocaust-era ...

A new exhibit, “Exodus,” tells the story of the ship that attempted to bring more than 4,500 Holocaust survivors and displaced persons to British-controlled Palestine in 1947, only to be turned away.

Children posing for a photo in hats that read “Exodus 1947” in a displaced persons camp in Germany, September 1947. Photo by Robert Gary In the summer of 1947, when the British turned away the SS ...

JERUSALEM — Yossi Harel, the ship commander whose attempt to bring Holocaust survivors to Palestine aboard the Exodus 1947 built support for Israel’s founding, died on Saturday. He was 90. Harel ...

Dr. Barry S. Lever, a retired periodontist who was an advocate for the Exodus 1947, a Chesapeake Bay steamship that played a role in the founding of Israel, died of heart disease Sunday at Seasons ...

(JNS) Dozens of personal diaries from people living through the early years of the Jewish state have been handed over to the National Library of Israel as part of the Operation Diary project. One ...