October 24, 2026
What Was the ATC?
In the spring of 1948 the new State of Israel faced five Arab armies that were already equipped as sovereign nations, with arsenals of modern weapons and reserves…
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News, tributes, and stories from the Aliyah Bet & Machal community.
October 13, 2026
When the Weapon Was the Fear: How Israel’s Tiny Air Force Won by Being Seen
An air force that barely exists cannot win a war by weight of bombs. Even before independence, declared on May 14, 1948 and answered the next day by…
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October 5, 2026
Hollywood Writer Fought for U.S. and Israel
By Tom Tugend for the Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA). Published May 1, 2022. LOS ANGELES (JTA) — Harold Livingston, a novelist and Hollywood screenwriter who as a fighter…
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October 4, 2026
Saluting Harold Kraushar
Harold Kraushar — 1930–2018. In June 1948 Harold Kraushar sailed on the ship Altalena, which carried soldiers and weapons for the Zionist cause to what was then Palestine.…
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October 4, 2026
Remembering Harold Katz
Harold Katz — 1921–2019. A former U.S. Navy officer, Harold Katz manned The Hatikvah carrying Holocaust survivors as part of the Aliyah Bet. He returned to Harvard Law…
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January 25, 2022
A Tribute to Samuel Z. Klausner
Samuel Z. Klausner was born in Brooklyn, NY on December 19th, 1923, and died in Philadelphia, PA on December 27th, 2021. In his youth, he read Torah and European…
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January 25, 2022
Remembering Paul Kaye
Paul Kaye was born in the Lower East Side on June 6th, 1927, and unfortunately passed on August 20th, 2021. In 1947, though just 19, he already had WWII…
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March 1, 2021
A Tribute to Roberta Hodes
Roberta Hodes, filmmaker for the nascent IDF — 1927–2021. Excerpts from her obituary: Upon graduation from Vassar College, Roberta set sail for the newly formed State of Israel.…
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August 15, 2020
A Tribute to Ralph Lowenstein
Ralph Lowenstein — March 8th, 1930 – August 10th, 2020. A Machal volunteer and tireless archivist of the North American volunteers’ story, with a long list of accomplishments.…
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January 14, 2019
New Book Follows the Adventure of Israel’s Original Air Force
AVILC Board Member Mike Flint is producing a film “Angles in the Sky” about the volunteer Air Force that came from around the world in Israel’s War of…
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