The monument standing on the Tel Aviv beach where the ship landed was photographed that day by the same photographer
Click for a larger image The following texts appear on both sides of the monument:
ALTALENA
"Civil war
Never"
..!
Menachem Begin’s signature
Click for a larger image their lives - war;
Their death - heroism;
Their sacrifice - holiness;
their memory - eternity;
Menachem Begin - Commander of the National Military Organization
Click for a larger image On June 5, 2023, an article was published in the newspaper "Haaretz" entitled "The Altlana Affair: 75 Years of Lies" in which Ofer Aderet writes that the Altlena crew did not recognize the authority of the Israeli government, did not report the voyage, and did not obey their commander who ordered them to retreat. Also, the 3 IDF soldiers who were killed in the exchange of fire are not mentioned.
A monument with an almost identical text is in the "Nachlat Yitzhak" cemetery on the border of Tel Aviv - Givatayim
Click for sign's details Translation of the text on the sign:
[As mentioned, the Hebrew text is different from the English text]
Memorial for the weapons ship Altalena 21.6.1948
arrived at the shores of the homeland
In coordination with representatives of the Israeli government, the ship "Altalena" -
And on board are 930 men and women fighters of the Etzel. Most of them are Holocaust survivors who came to join the IDF
in the war against the Arab invader. The ship had large quantities of weapons and ammunition.
Due to differences of opinion between the Israeli government and the Irgun headquarters regarding the allocation of some of the weapons to the Etzel in Jerusalem, which had not yet been included in the domain of the State of Israel (the Etzel "Hagana" and the Lehi still operated independently), the ship was shelled on the coast by order of the Provisional Government .
And these are the names of the Etzel soldiers who fell in the tragic event:
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