"Yossi Harel"

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Joseph Harel (January 4, 1918 - 26 April 2008) was a ship commander, including the ship "Exodus". From the beginning of the Israeli intelligence community.

biography

First his way.
Born in 1918 as Joseph a hamburger to Moshe Mordechai and her daughter is a hamburger in Jerusalem. There was a Friday for his family in Israel. He, his twin brother Nathan and his parents knew poverty and scarcity and Rael had to work at a young age instead of learning. In his youth, Harel was one of the first to join the new unit that Isaac Field, the wandering. After that, Harel joined the field’s divisions and participated in the increase operation for her training on 21 March 1938.

In the days of the U.S.-T. events, he joined the “protection” organization and fought in the ranks of the special night factions under the command of Charles Everhard Wingit. Wingate greatly appreciated Harel and the two were friends. Harel, who excels in hand grenades in the battlefield and courageously cast Wiinggate by his hand "The Bomber". During World War II, he joined the United Nations. Among other things, he took part in the vertebrating operations against the British Guard ships.

In The Darkness
During the period of the Patriarchate, Harel commanded four elephant ships: “The Church of Israel,” the two “famen” ships: “Independence” and “open kibbutz,” and the title is “Exodus”. These four ships led to the land of Israel about 25,000 elephants, about a third of the elephants who immigrated to Israel during the period of the humiliation.

Command on the “Israeli Knesset”
The first ship commanded by Harel (with Benjamin Jerusalem) was the “Israeli Knesset”, which was released in November 1946 from cattle in Yugoslavia, with a total of 3,400 elephants. Harel practiced the parasites to discover unarmed resistance against the British. When she arrived near the port of Haifa, she was surrounded by British destroyers, and when the British tried to forcibly take off the elephants, a violent battle broke out in which two elephants and one British soldier were killed. After gas grenades were taken to the ship, Harel gave an order to the elephants to surrender and all the ship’s elephants were deported to the detention camps in Cyprus.

Command on Exodos
The journey of Axidos in 1947 became a national myth. The ship and its leaves 4,554 survivors of the Holocaust came to the shores of the Land of Israel and was persuaded by five British destroyers after a long time battle. Harel decided to surrender by saying:

The captain of "Exodus", Isaac (Ike) Ahronovich (who was responsible for the ship's flat while Rael was a headquarters), part of his decision not to command the elephants to fight the British, but respected it. In recognition of the death of Harel, Aronovich told him of the latest news:

The passage of the Axidos Journey was immortalized in many Hebrew memoirs. Thanks to the book "Exodus" of the Jewish-American writer Leon Yusssss, who saw light in 1953 and became a film film called Axodos in 1960, the ship became a global historical value. In the film (which is most loosely based on the story of the true Axodos), he was the son of the figure of Harel, as the ship commander, actor Paul Newman. In the book and in the film, the name Ari Ben Canaan was given.

The intelligence scene.
After the establishment of the state, Harel was appointed to the Christ of the IDF's first chief of staff, Jacob Dori.
As the champion David Marcus in the days of the War of Independence, his body was flown back to the United States on a special military plane on June 30, 1948 and his funeral was held in the West Point military academy, attended by IDF representatives, under the auspices of the first remission, Moshe Dayan and Rael.

Later, Harel was from the IDF’s military intelligence (to the days of the intelligence department, where he served long years and had a rank of lieutenant champion). At the time of his service in the Navy, he went to the United States to study marine architecture in MIT.

In early 1955, he was called by Chief of Staff Moshe Dayan, to replace Mordechai Besss, who headed the head