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A short documentary (in Hebrew) about breaking in the Akko prison, killing of 3 Israeli Sergeants by the British and the retaliation of the Hebrew underground organization "Etzel". Statements given by Menachem Begin to this matter. Between 4 and 5 on Tuesday morning, July 29, 1947, the Acre prison gallows were operated three times in quick succession. Avshalom Haviv, Yaakov Weiss and Meir Nakar, Irgun fighters who had participated in the May 4th prison break which set free 41 Irgun and Lehi...
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Bergen-Belsen was a Nazi concentration camp in Lower Saxony, southwest of the town of Bergen near Celle. Between 1943 and 1945, an estimated 50,000 people died there, up to 35,000 of them dying of typhus in the first few months of 1945. On April 15, 1945, British forces liberated the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in northern Germany. Sixty-thousand prisoners were living in the camp when the troops arrived, most of them seriously ill. Thousands more lay dead and unburied on the camp...
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Ayalon Institute: The Secret in the Hill - This is the story of a secret factory built underneath a limestone hill that manufactured ammunition for the Israeli resistance. On the surface it was used for training groups of young people for Kibbutz life. It operated during the years 1946 -1948. The Ayalon Institute - Kibbutzim Hill - by Yael Zisling. Imagine building a clandestine ammunition factory, right under the nose of the British. In 1945, the Haganah determined that at the end of the...
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An excerpt from the British Prime Minister's first-ever speech to the Knesset. Gordon Brown has promised that Britain "will always stand at Israel's side" in the first speech by a British premier to the Israeli parliament. Speaking to members of the Israeli Knesset this morning, Brown said that the partnership between the two countries was getting "stronger and stronger" and pledged that Britain would support Israel as a "true friend" at all times. The British record regarding Israel over the...
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Home for Purim! 'For Your Consideration' Trailer - Christopher Guest's movie revolves around an indie film called HOME FOR PURIM. This hilarious films centers around three actors (played by O'Hara, Posey, and Shearer) who learn that their performances in the film 'Home for Purim', a drama set in the mid-1940s American South, are generating award-season buzz. "For Your Consideration" is a feature film being directed (and co-written) by the prolific "mockumentarian" Christopher Guest....
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