Operation Balak
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Operation Balak
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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 early in 1948 along with a few Jewish p
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1948 undercover operation to smuggle aircraft from Eastern Europe to Israel
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Balak
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2024-01-11T20:50:40Z
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