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- Operation_Balak abstract "Operation Balak was a smuggling operation, during the founding of Israel in 1948, that purchased arms in Europe to avoid various embargoes and boycotts transferring them to the Yishuv. Of particular note was the delivery of 23 Czechoslovakia-made Avia S-199 fighters, the post-war version of the German Luftwaffe Messerschmitt Bf 109.A former Royal Air Force pilot and gentile named Gordon Levett, who served in World War II, volunteered for the Israel Machal (the overseas volunteer unit) early in 1948 along with a few Jewish pilots (among others the future president Ezer Weizman) from Britain. Brought up in poverty in Sussex, England, Levett had an affinity for the underdog. \"Looking back, I have neither failed nor succeeded, the fate of most of us,\" Levett reflected later, \"but I shall leave the world a better place than when I entered it because I helped found the State of Israel.\"Initially, Levett was regarded with deep suspicion. \"Not only was he not a Jew, but Mr. Levett was particularly notable because he was British,\" said The New York Times. \"To most Israelis at that time, the recently lapsed British mandate in Palestine had been decidedly pro-Arab, and British Government policy was seen as anti-Zionist.\"\"Recruited in March 1948 by emissaries in Europe of the Haganah, the Jewish fighting force in Palestine, Mr. Levett was viewed with a healthy dose of suspicion,\" noted the Times. \"'In my last interview I was told, 'We're quite convinced that you are a British spy, but we're going to take you to see what you're up to,'\" he recalled.In June Levett was given the task of flying Avia S-199 fighters, supplied by Czechoslovakia from the Czechoslovak Air Force airfield (code-named Etzion or Zebra by Israelis) near Žatec (seventy-five kilometers west of Prague) to Ekron airfield (formerly RAF Aqir) close to Rehovot now Tel Nof Israeli Air Force Base. The airfield near Žatec had been put at disposal of the Haganah by a new Czechoslovak foreign minister Vladimír Clementis (a prominent Slovak member of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia) and was under the command of Yehuda Ben Chorin. Operation Balak lasted three months, during which time Levett managed to airlift tons of arms, ammunition and personnel. During the first ferry flight of 15 aircraft, three were forced to land in Greece due to poor navigation, and were interned.After a defector revealed the existence of the base code-named \"Zebra\" in USA, and the US made a representation to the UN to have the base shut down, the operation shifted to the air base close to the Yugoslav town of Nikšić.The name is a reference to the Balak, king of the Moabites, son of Zippor, whose name is mentioned in Numbers 22:2. By extension, the name came to mean 'Destroyer.'".
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- Operation_Balak wikiPageWikiLink Ammunition.
- Operation_Balak wikiPageWikiLink Arms_shipments_from_Czechoslovakia_to_Israel_1947–49.
- Operation_Balak wikiPageWikiLink Avia_S-199.
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- Operation_Balak wikiPageWikiLink Book_of_Numbers.
- Operation_Balak wikiPageWikiLink Category:Arms_trafficking.
- Operation_Balak wikiPageWikiLink Category:Battles_and_operations_of_the_1948_Arab–Israeli_War.
- Operation_Balak wikiPageWikiLink Category:Non-combat_military_operations_involving_Israel.
- Operation_Balak wikiPageWikiLink Czechoslovakia.
- Operation_Balak wikiPageWikiLink Ezer_Weizman.
- Operation_Balak wikiPageWikiLink Ferry_flying.
- Operation_Balak wikiPageWikiLink Gentile.
- Operation_Balak wikiPageWikiLink Gordon_Levett.
- Operation_Balak wikiPageWikiLink Haganah.
- Operation_Balak wikiPageWikiLink Israel.
- Operation_Balak wikiPageWikiLink List_of_minor_biblical_figures,_L–Z.
- Operation_Balak wikiPageWikiLink Luftwaffe.
- Operation_Balak wikiPageWikiLink Mahal_(Israel).
- Operation_Balak wikiPageWikiLink Mandatory_Palestine.
- Operation_Balak wikiPageWikiLink Messerschmitt_Bf_109.
- Operation_Balak wikiPageWikiLink Moab.
- Operation_Balak wikiPageWikiLink Nikšić.
- Operation_Balak wikiPageWikiLink Prague.
- Operation_Balak wikiPageWikiLink Rehovot.
- Operation_Balak wikiPageWikiLink Royal_Air_Force.
- Operation_Balak wikiPageWikiLink Tel_Nof_Airbase.
- Operation_Balak wikiPageWikiLink Vladimír_Clementis.
- Operation_Balak wikiPageWikiLink Weapon.
- Operation_Balak wikiPageWikiLink World_War_II.
- Operation_Balak wikiPageWikiLink Yehuda_Ben_Chorin.
- Operation_Balak wikiPageWikiLink Yishuv.
- Operation_Balak wikiPageWikiLink Žatec.
- Operation_Balak wikiPageWikiLink File:Douglas_C-54_Skymaster_USAF.JPG.
- Operation_Balak wikiPageWikiLinkText "Operation Balak".
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- Operation_Balak subject Category:Arms_trafficking.
- Operation_Balak subject Category:Battles_and_operations_of_the_1948_Arab–Israeli_War.
- Operation_Balak subject Category:Non-combat_military_operations_involving_Israel.
- Operation_Balak hypernym Operation.
- Operation_Balak type MilitaryConflict.
- Operation_Balak comment "Operation Balak was a smuggling operation, during the founding of Israel in 1948, that purchased arms in Europe to avoid various embargoes and boycotts transferring them to the Yishuv.".
- Operation_Balak label "Operation Balak".
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- Operation_Balak sameAs Операция_«Валак».
- Operation_Balak sameAs Q2915468.
- Operation_Balak wasDerivedFrom Operation_Balak?oldid=685837491.
- Operation_Balak depiction Douglas_C-54_Skymaster_USAF.JPG.
- Operation_Balak isPrimaryTopicOf Operation_Balak.