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Wreck of ship sunk by Israeli military in Irgun clash found after 78 years
Wreck of ship sunk by Israeli military in Irgun clash found after 78 years
The wreck of the Irgun underground's Altalena ship, bombed by the Israeli military in 1948 and deliberately sunk in 1949, was located off Israel's coast at a depth of 1,650 feet.
Rina Bassist
Aug 24, 2026
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A merchant ship "Jabotinsky" (former "Altalena"), chartered by Jewish military group Irgun Zvaei Leumi to carry weapons for Israeli fighters, burns near Tel Aviv beach, after being shelled by the Haganah, Israel, June 27, 1948. — AFP via Getty Images
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The wreck of the Altalena, a ship shelled by the Israeli military in June 1948, was located Monday at a depth of 1,650 feet off Israel's Mediterranean coast “during a complex naval search operation,” National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir and Heritage Minister Amichai Eliyahu announced in a joint statement.
The Altalena Affair has over the years become the subject of deep political controversy between Israel's political right and left, with competing narratives over the circumstances that led to the ship's sinking. Yigal Amir, the assassin of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, even invoked the affair to justify his actions.
The showdown that divided Israel
The Altalena Affair was a violent confrontation that erupted in June 1948, one month after Israel's establishment, between the newly created........
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