The Altalena affair has gone down in the annals of Jewish history as the moment a civil war was averted. A mere five weeks after declaring statehood, Jew was fighting Jew. It was Palmach vs. Irgun.

It’s time for the lesson of the Altalena to be implemented in Lebanon. Only one army can be allowed to operate in Lebanon for peace and prosperity to exist in the Land of the Cedars. The Altalena ...

Sinat hinam," baseless hatred, was the cause of the destruction of the Second Temple, and remains our great vulnerability and challenge.

The affair defined and galvanized the ethos of Israel’s right-wing minority. But today it plagues and derails the ethos of the new right-wing majority. After 70 years, it is time to forget. Seventy ...

Malca Fein is a fit, sharp, outspoken, perfectly groomed octogenarian with a just a hint of an accent. But get her talking about the past and the fiery Zionist freedom fighter burns through her ...

"On this day, in this place, and at this time, we must fulfil the legacy of Menachem Begin, who showed tremendous leadership and declared here on the Altalena: ‘Civil war, never again.’" On any given ...

This month, sixty-five year ago, as the Altalena burned on the beachfront of Tel Aviv, the Jewish people were poised on the brink of civil war. The “Altalena Affair” reflects the birth pangs of the ...

As the Palestinian prime minister, Mahmoud Abbas, tries to stop Palestinian violence with a cease-fire rather than brute force, Israelis and their American supporters keep calling for a “Palestinian ...

Memorial ceremony for the fallen fighters in the Altalena incidentMark Naiman, GPO President Reuven Rivlin spoke Wednesday at the memorial ceremony for casualties of the Altalena incident of 1948, ...

Sixty-five years ago, on the night of June 20, 1948, the Irgun cargo ship, Altalena, was attacked by Israeli Navy gunboats off the coast of Kfar Vitkin. Sixteen men were killed and scores of others ...