Aliyah Bet

the central memorial for the Ha'apala in London Garden in Tel Aviv

Ha'apala graves in mount herzl

Aliyah Bet (Hebrew: 'עלייה בcode: he is deprecated , Aliyah bet) is the name of the illegal immigration to by Jews to the British Mandate of Palestine between 1934 and 1948. It is also known as Ha'apala (Hebrew: ההעפלהcode: he is deprecated , meaning ascension) in Hebrew. Over 100,000 people tried to illegally enter Palestine. There were 142 voyages by 120 ships. Over half were stopped by the British patrols. Over 1,600 drowned at sea. Only a few thousand actually entered Palestine.

A national burial site for those Jews who drowned in the sea during the Aliyah Bet is in the National Civil Cemetery of the State of Israel in Mount Herzl. Other burials are in Carmel Beach cemetery in Haifa. A museum of the history of Aliyah Bet is in Atlit detainee camp. The central memorial for those who did the Aliyah Bet is in the London Garden in Tel Aviv.

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Holocaust death toll as a percentage of the total pre-war Jewish population in Europe
The journey of Aliyah Bet Group 14
SS Parita aground off Tel Aviv, August 1939
SS Tiger Hill aground off Haifa, September 1, 1939
Tiger Hill Memorial at Frishman Beach
SS Patria sinking in Haifa port
Yisrael Meir Lau (aged 8) and Elazar Schiff, survivors of Buchenwald concentration camp, arrive at Haifa, July 1945
Haganah ship Medinat HaYehudim ("Jewish State") in Haifa port, 1947
SS Exodus arriving at Haifa port, 20 July 1947
United States lands Jewish refugees in Nahariya, 1948
Film about Ha'apala after World War II