Decorations of the underground organizations active till 1948 |
Haganah |
Medal for services in the illegal immigration to Israel |
The medal is made of silver colored pewter (an alloy of mainly tin), diameter 3.5 cm. The front of the medal shows a ship in a stormy sea, surrounded by the biblical text "The children will return to their land" and the Hebrew dates of 5705-5706. The reverse of the medal shows the Tower of David in Jerusalem opposite the Titus Gate in Rome, beneath the text "Iudaea Restituta" which translates as Judaea Restituted, and the dates MCMXLV - MCMXLVI (1945 - 1946). The following picture shows this
medal in the "HAGANA" Museum in Tel-Aviv, accompanied by the text:
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Source: © Igor Ostapenko |