78 years after IDF sank right-wing militia Irgun's Altalena, wreck found intact underwater
The Irgun brought the ship, loaded with weapons, to Israel's shores. In the days after the dismantling of the underground militias, Ben-Gurion viewed the Altalena as a threat to the state's sovereignty and ordered it to be fired upon. Three Israel Defense Forces soldiers and 16 Irgun activists were killed
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