Word: szenesh
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...Hannah Szenesh came to Palestine from Hungary as a child. She became a member of a collective Sdot Yam, located near the ruins of ancient Ceasarea. When war broke out, Hannah Szenesh volunteered for special service in Hungary and enrolled as a parachutist. She was trained by the British. Hannah was to make contact with Jewish members of the Hungarian resistance movement and relay certain Allied Command instructions to them. She was caught, tortured, and finally shot by a firing squad. Hannah Szenesh was a member of Haganah...
...beach near Naharia that I saw the rusted and rotting hulk of a tiny craft that had brought a few hundred "unauthorized" immigrants to Palestine. Named after Hannah Szenesh, this boat escaped detection by His Majesty's Imperial Navy, and was able to unload its human cargo on this stretch of lonely beach. The operation had been carefully planned. Strategie defenses were set up and the approaching roads were mined. As night fell, some hundred young men and women took their assigned positions, and waited. They waited far into the night but no word or sight of the boat...
...Haganah were again required, these men were released and the British themselves took over the training of a large group of men to create an effective military force for secret commando operations. Men and women of the Palmach undertook many missions for the British during the war. Hannah Szenesh was but one of the many who gave their lives...