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Yugo was an elephant ship. It was named after a nearby kibbutz, following the "Black Saturday" near the voyage, where the British seized a large weapons in the kibbutz and held many arrests.

History of her

"Sagam" - a freight ship
"Sagolem" was a wooden freight ship with a small-scale operating system.

He was Turkish, and was probably used in a military framework. When she was bought, her husband changed her name to Sogur.

"Golden" - a ship

Purchase and preparation
The ship was purchased in Turkey. The bachelors were members of the Mossad for an increase in B: Werner Salomon May Palestine, who held the top representative of the Mossad in Marseilles, and Avi Schwartz is also the Mossad Man of Marseille.

Towards the cruise, accommodation-class ship was built for the elephants.

The people of Palestine were Moses Mark and Israel. The defendants were a doctor and Israel.
They had a connection device and a home made.

The captain was Turkish, along with him a team of right-wingers, including 9 Turks, first Lebanese officer, as well as another team of captain, officer and Republican politicians.

The elephants.
754 The elephants were Holocaust survivors, most of them young, about half of them women. Most of them were members of Jewish organizations and Zionist youth movements, including members of the Association of Israel – 58, Bond – 123, pioneering France – 50; Beiter – 25 lb (Particles, soldiers, pioneers) – 45, pioneering the Netherlands – 22, pioneering the young Czech Republic – 12, the builders of England – 30, Drur – 48, the young guard – comfortable – 148, 148 species.

They were gathered in the camp near Marseille. On board the ship with a nightmare. During the cruise there were several irregularities in the ship, because of a lack of discipline from the elephants, and the inadequacy with the foreign tymists.

The cruise
On 29 July 1946, at 14:00, the ship sailed from La Ciotat near Marseille. The planned route addressed Sardinia, Sicily, Pluffens, Crete, head of the ceiling to Haifa.

According to the original plan, Yugo had to transfer her passengers to the ship "Henita Sold", which was released from Greece. The program was not carried out. The connection device was broken immediately with the cruise, and the transmitter did not work properly.

A confrontation with the British
On 11 August, at 10:00 a.m., 55 miles from the shores of the Land of Israel, facing the head of the ceiling, was discovered by a British plane. A British ointment was sent to locate it and damaged air aid. The boat " Mauritius" tried to drag the ship. British police officers and soldiers were on board. They used tear gas because of the resistance to the giraffe. And they arrested the crew of the Maamites: the captain and the Turkish sailors, who denied familiarity with the Palms, the commander of the ship and the escorts, and did not send them to the British.

On 12 August, the ship docked in the territorial waters outside the port of Haifa.
On 13 August at 3 p.m., a British ointment approached to drag the ship to the port. The British told the elephants that they would be transferred to another British ship, without mentioning that the goal was to expel the detention camps in Cyprus. The elephants resisted transfer, and began a catalyz. British soldiers went up to the deck with rifle harrows and water jets. They broke the top deck and came to the elephants.

The contacts were taken to the sea before the British clash. The ship was finally dragged into the port of Haifa by Mauritius. The port of Haifa is closed when it comes to “going.” The elephants were transferred to the deportation ship "Amphir Riool".

At the same time, the ship was also "Henita Sold", which came along with "Yor". The two ships were the first to be deported to Cyprus.

The lenders went out with the elephants to Cyprus. They took with them weapons that were damaged for them in Bethlehem mines, which were brought to "live" by an engine boat of the anchor company. But not me