"The Panthes"

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The pagans are a nickname of two large elephant ships: Pan Crescent; in its Hebrew name, “Economics,” which came together from Bulgaria in December 1947, with over 15,000 souls from the Romanian community and 420 Jews from Bulgaria, and finally forced to Palestine. The two ships sailed together all the way, so they were named one of the "Pans". The size of the ships, the tight organization and the diplomatic struggle around the party in the face of the UN resolution in November, has given the interpretation of the "fains" a great importance in the history of the humiliation.

The two ships, Pan York and Pan-Carcent, were two freight ships in 4,750 tons, which were purchased in the United States by a courier of the B.C., Wolf Shind. Special teams trained them and loaded them in goods to partially fund their purchase. They broke the goods in European ports, and in the port of Venice was blown up in the construction of Pan-Cour, probably by British intelligence personnel or the "Arab League" on their behalf. After several delays, the two ships arrived until October 1947 to the port of Constance in Romania, and were prepared for passengers. They were installed with rank, ventilation systems and large clinics. The design was to bring them to the Burgas port in Bulgaria and to them, in a complex and complex operation, 15,000 elephants were brought from all over Romania through special passenger trains. The majority of the lenders and captains of the two ships were archivists – the captain of Pan York was a traitor to the Negev and the son of Herrendorna, and their commander was Yossi Harel.

The British, who followed the ships’ movement from the beginning of their journey, began by Foreign Minister Ernest Bvin, to exert heavy diplomatic pressure on the governments of Panama, Turkey, and Romania to stop the ships as they arrived on their shores, and even to include disinformation 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 the influence of this 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 for the establishment of a Jewish state in the Land of Israel, and the Zionist leadership needed this matter for the American government and did not want to upset 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 not to delay the immigrants already organized and pressed the rise, and the sensitiv danger that they were pumping to speak to Romanian Jewry.

Despite the pressures exerted by the agency’s leadership, the two ships finally sailed to Bulgaria, where the elephants from all over Romania arrived through special passenger trains organized in advance, accompanied by the “protection” people. The ships sailed toward the land of Israel in December 1947, with over 15,000 elephants, and at the heart of the sea, David Ben-Gurion set Hebrew names for them: "Open kibbutzing" and "Independence". When the Black Sea ships moved to the Mediterranean, they encountered British troops. By ordering Ben-Gurion, who was afraid of the fate of many passengers, began negotiations between the British and the commanders of the ships, and after an agreement was reached, unarmed soldiers took over the ships and evacuated them to Cyprus. It turned out that the British had broken the contact code with the ships and knew about the order to agree to the Cyprus sector. Three days later, the elephants were taken to the camps in Cyprus. After the establishment of the State of Israel, the “Pans” were used to bring many immigrants from the camps in Cyprus and Morocco