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Neither did the travel/immigration restrictions on Jews to America and Britain and elsewhere.


Aliyah Bet: Illegal immigration (1933-1948)

The British government limited Jewish immigration to Palestine with quotas, and following
the rise of Nazism to power in Germany, illegal immigration to Palestine commenced. The
illegal immigration was known as Aliyah Bet ("secondary immigration"), or Ha'apalah, and
was organized by the Mossad Le'aliyah Bet, as well as by the Irgun. Immigration was
done mainly by sea, and to a lesser extent overland through Iraq and Syria. Beginning in
1939 Jewish immigration was further restricted, limiting it to 75,000 individuals for a
period of five years after which immigration was to end completely. The British made it
illegal to sell land to Jews in 95% of the Mandate.[citation needed] During World War II
and the years that followed until independence, Aliyah Bet became the main form of
Jewish immigration to Palestine.

Following the war, Berihah ("flight"), an organization of former partisans and ghetto
fighters was primarily responsible for smuggling Jews from Poland and Eastern Europe to
the Italian ports from which they traveled to Palestine.

Despite British efforts to curb the illegal immigration, during the 14 years of its operation,
110,000 Jews immigrated to Palestine.

In 1945 reports of the Holocaust with its 6 million Jewish dead caused many Jews in
Palestine to turn openly against the British Mandate, and illegal immigration escalated
rapidly as many Holocaust survivors joined the Aliyah."