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The state of the Jews was an elephant ship that reached the shores of the Land of Israel in October 1947, with 2664 elephants. Her journey was organized by the Institute for an increase in the 'protection' and it was named after the book of the State of Israel Benjamin Wolf Herzl: "The State of the Jews."

The ship was originally built as an ice bar and an Arctic artillery for the U.S. Coast Guard and was then called Northland. After being purchased for the submarine, she raised elephants in Bulgaria. Caught by the British near the coast of Tel Aviv, she was dragged into Haifa Port and from the elephants were deported to the detention camps in Cyprus. After the establishment of the State of Israel and the establishment of the Israeli Navy, it was converted to its use and called the Akhei Eilat.

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Purchase and Training for the Expulsion
The ship was acquired by the Institute for an increase in B in Baltimore on January 3, 1947, through Wolf Shind, a representative of the Institute for the United States increase.
The British may have discovered in Baltimore for the first time. When she moved to Port de Boock, the ship was discovered and identified by the British Navy. In the final stages of preparation at the port of Iron, she was discovered and identified again by British intelligence. Her code name, set by the Mossad’s people for the increase B was “Northern”. She sailed to France in April 1947, arriving at Port de Bouc in southern France on May 3, 1947. In this port, the ship took off equipment and food for the hostage warehouses for other submarine ships, from where it sailed to the port in the Bay of Bisca, on the coast of France to which it arrived on June 12, 1947.

On the way to the port in Ayalon, the buildings were dismantled under the main deck to create halls, including sleeping grades. The plans submitted to the ship included building a top building in the top of the ship’s hips, creating another hall and extending the ship’s top deck, building bathrooms and showers on the ship’s decks, adjusting the ship’s kitchen to the service of the elephants and preparing a hospital room for 50 people.

The ship was equipped with food for 1,700 people to 25 days, fueling 55 days of sailing and drinking water about 300 tons in containers. It was also possible to pack water in the fireworks facilities on the ship. The contact devices installed by the Mossad personnel for the increase B were corrected according to the U.S. standard for long-term ships.

The work in the draw lasted seven weeks. At the same time, the ship Padducah was named after the "Real".

The ship is one of the 10 elephant ships known as the "American ships" of the desalination plant - ships purchased in the United States/Canada and which are relatively large for ships purchased in Europe can be a significant change in the scope of the miscarriage after the "Morry Greenfield" - a volunteer in one of them - wrote on them a book called the "secret fleet of Jews").

During the time she was preparing the ship's "The Rescue of Europe". From her elephants were forcibly removed in the port of Hamburg, after an attempt to take them off at Port de Boock.
The institution reached an agreement with the Soviet Union and Romania for allowing about 4,500 Jews from Romania, as the number deported to Germany. As a result, Saul Avigor arrived in Lyon and said that the two ships in the port ("The State of the Jews" and " Redemption") were selected to take the elephants from the port in Bulgaria, instead of the original plan to raise elephants in northern Europe.

The ship was originally intended to take elephants at the Gdańsk port in Poland, but following the "Exodus" affair, which was the mission, and it was decided that it would take elephants from the communist bloc countries in the Black Sea. In August 1947, two elephant ships sailed, the State of the Jews and the “ Redemption” – both of them from the “American” ships of the Institute of Leila B, from Yun to Burgas in Bulgaria.

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