Yitzhak “Ike” Ahronovitch, the captain of the Exodus ship whose attempt to take Holocaust survivors to Palestine built support for Israel’s founding, has died. He was 86. He died Wednesday in northern ...

Here are some useful notes to know before watching about the Maryland Public Television documentary flick. Exodus 1947 starring Murray Aronoff, Ike Aronowitz, David Ben-Gurion, Eli Bergman has a Not ...

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Children posing for a photo in hats that read “Exodus 1947” in a displaced persons camp in Germany, September 1947. Photo by Robert Gary In the summer of 1947, when the British turned away the SS ...

A new exhibit, “Exodus,” tells the story of the ship that attempted to bring more than 4,500 Holocaust survivors and displaced persons to British-controlled Palestine in 1947, only to be turned away.

In the history of modern Israel, unlike the Torah, it is Exodus that comes first. In 1947, a ship named Exodus left France bound for the promised land, carrying more than 4,500 Holocaust survivors. It ...

Barely out of his teens and just out of the Navy, Bill Millman was kicking around Boston in 1946 when he was recruited to be a helmsman on an old Chesapeake Bay ferry boat that was ready for the scrap ...

Dr. Barry S. Lever, a retired periodontist who was an advocate for the Exodus 1947, a Chesapeake Bay steamship that played a role in the founding of Israel, died of heart disease Sunday at Seasons ...