"The Legend of the Hill"

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Gad Hilb (2 April 1924 - April 10, 2009) was an Israeli captain. It was known as the captain of the elephant ships living Arrozorov and Pan York.

His life

The First Years
Hilb was born in a living in Germany, a eldest son of his parents, Carl Clemman Hillb, a lawyer, and a tyrant (to a Travis house), a piano teacher. The family immigrated to Israel in 1926, returned to Germany in 1929 and immigrated again in 1932. He attended the Joseph Memorial School in Haifa, and in 1938, at the age of 14, he first sailed as a pamphlet on the company’s mission to future service.

During World War II
In December 1940, Hillb sailed from Haifa, in a group of ten Eritreans from the Land of Israel, an Italian cargo ship taken by the British, and Norway. The ship arrived in North America on a long voyage around Africa, and from there in a boat to Britain. From October 1941 to March 1942, the people waited in vain for their return to Israel. In April 1942, Hillb sailed in the Dutch ship Conjit, which was coined on 12 May. A week later, he arrived in a rescue boat, with 23 other crew members, to the island of Dominica. From September 1942 to August 1946, Hillb sailed as a second officer on six American freight ships.

Life of Arrozorov

In the summer of 1946, Hillb was called to meet in New York with members of the Institute for an increase in B, and following the meeting he volunteered for protection and received the command of the ship Olga (for the days of the elephants living in Arrozorov), which had fallen from the port of Baltimore on October 15. The ship led 1,346 elephants from the port of Sweden and Italy, and rose on a mountain in front of a beautiful seashore on 28 February 1947, fighting British Navy ships and soldiers. Hilb intervened between the parasites and was arrested in the detention camps in Cyprus. After contacting the defense mechanism in the camps, he was incorporated into a group of elephants that was transferred to the prison camp, and from there was freedom.

The Panic Fellowship

Hillb took part in the Panzer operation – the elephantships "Pan York" (in Hebrew assemblies of postcards) and the "Pan Karnet" (in Hebrew name - independence), which brought over 15,000 Jews from Romania and Bulgaria. The ships were bought in the U.S. by Kash, and in May 1947 they sailed to the Mediterranean with American teams. The Pan York was sent to Marseille, the American team was released, and a new team under the command of the Spanish captain Esteban Herrendorna took its place. Hillb was appointed captain at the end of August, and convinced Herrendorna to continue as the first officer. The crew were Republican Spanish exiles, and American Jewish volunteers.

The British, who followed the ships’ movement, exerted heavy diplomatic pressure on the governments of Panama, Turkey and Romania to prevent their cruises, and even include information in the global media regarding ships. When it did not help, the British began to exert their influence on the American government, claiming that ships were organized by the Soviet Union to increase its influence in the Middle East. The U.S. government was convinced and demanded that the Jewish Agency stop the ships.

At the same time, the UN began to discuss the partition plan to establish a Jewish state in the Land of Israel, and the Zionist leadership did not want to confront the British. Moshe served, head of the agency’s political department, ordered the ships to stop. However, the head of the Foundation for an increase in B. Saul Avigor and others in the community insisted on the faction, because of the need to not delay the immigrants already organized and pressed the rise, and the tangible danger that Shaba, their words, the Judaism of Romania.

Despite the pressures exerted by the agency’s leadership, the two ships finally sailed to the Burgas port in Bulgaria, where the elephants from Romania arrived in special passenger trains. The ships sailed on December 27, 1947 when more than 15,000 elephants were raised, and their stays at the heart of the sea set them David Ben-Gorah