Carmel Herzeliyya Newsreel 534, 1969

20 Years Ago: Immigrants Ship Galilah Lands in Israel

1 Minute, 1969
Genre:
Moment

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Directed by: Unknown
Subtitles: English, Hebrew

Archive footage from 1949 documents the passenger ship Galilah, carrying illegal Jewish immigrants that were detained in Cyprus internment camps, leaving the island towards Israel. Some of the passengers are Holocaust survivors. The ship docks at the Port of Haifa, where Israeli nurses greet the passengers.

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