Rekhesh
Rekhesh (Hebrew: רֶכֶשׁ, lit. Acquisitions) was the arms and munitions procurement branch of the Haganah Jewish defense force in Mandatory Palestine, in the middle 1940s, at a time when the British were not allowing the Jews to have arms. [1]
Rekhesh stole arms from British and Allied military bases, bought weapons on the black market and imported them from legitimate suppliers.[2]
The organization was expert at modifying, dismantling, and packing weapons so that they could be smuggled into Palestine without detection by the British authorities.[2]
Shaul Avigur was head of the organization and Ehud Avriel one of its main operatives.[3]
Notes
- Deacon, 1978, p. 39.
- Adelman, 2008, p. 156.
- Early Operations of Israeli Intelligence, Jewish Agency for Israel Archived 2012-02-29 at the Wayback Machine, Accessed 24 May 2009.
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