Quotation from Berl Katznelson “The day of the Patria sinking … was the biggest Zionist action in recent times” — Nov. 26 1940

Berl Katznelson, the ideological leader of the labor movement, wrote to Shaul Avigur, one of the leaders of the Haganah, the day after the shipwreck of the Patria, caused by the Haganah and which claimed 250 victims.

Author : Thematic :
" « Know that the day of the Patria sinking is for us like the day of [the 1920 fall of] Tel-Hai », thus trying to assign to the event foundational national status. He added that the Patria operation was “the biggest Zionist action in recent times.” "

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