Israel NOWlej
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Places

Coastal village south of Haifa. The British ran a detention camp there for illegal Jewish immigrants in the 1930s and 1940s. A raid in 1945 freed about 200 detainees.

Illustration from the book. Photographs, where shown, are from Wikimedia Commons, with author and license beside each. Click a photograph to enlarge it.

Sources

  • The book Israel NOWlej by Richard J. Koret, glossary, page 176.