Israel recovers gun-running boat whose 1948 sinking left divide

The conflict in 1948 pitted against each other the two political blocs that would define Israel domestic politics.

Israel announced on Monday it had recovered the wreckage of the Altalena, an arms-smuggling boat whose sinking by the Israeli military just after the state's founding in 1948 exposed divisions that persist today. The Altalena had set sail from France loaded with weapons packed for the Irgun, the militan

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