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Interview with the Captain of the Exodus
[Jerusalem Post] Ruthie Blum Leibowitz - Ike Aranne (formerly Yitzhak Aronowicz), now 85, was the captain of the Exodus. On July 11, 1947, the ship set sail from France with a crew of Hagana members who were transporting more than 4,500 Jewish refugees, most of them Holocaust survivors, to Palestine. As it neared its destination, the British rammed and boarded it, resulting in a violent altercation that left three dead and dozens wounded.