The year 2019 marks the 72nd anniversary of the Exodus 1947 ship, perhaps the most dramatic post-World War II attempt to breach the British naval blockade and bring Holocaust survivors to Mandatory ...

On July 18, 1947, some 4,550 refugees set off across the Mediterranean Sea, leaving behind post-Holocaust Europe to make a home in what would become the Jewish state. The vessel reached Haifa, only to ...

Jeff Dunetz is editor/publisher of the blog "The Lid." and a contributor to Israel National News and The Jewish Press. He is a weekly Thursday Guest on The Schaftlein Report, a National Board Member ...

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 ...

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 ...

In the history of modern Israel, unlike the Torah, it is Exodus that comes first. In 1947, a ship named Exodus left France bound for the promised land, carrying more than 4,500 Holocaust survivors. It ...

Exodus 1947 may not be as famous as the novel it inspired, Leon Uris' Exodus. But Ruth Gruber's account of Holocaust survivors on the eponymous vessel surpasses the fictionalised version in many ways.

Exodus 1947 is a one hour PBS documentary narrated by Morley Safer with a score by Ilan Rechtman. The Exodus 1947 voyage acted as a catalyst in forming the new State of Israel. The documentary focuses ...