After World War II, states rightly took seriously the fight against antisemitism. But that mission must not embolden Israel's oppression of Palestinians.
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The Mediterranean Sea has always been a crossing point allowing people to find welcoming shores and a better future. During and after the World War II the Jews who survived the Shoah crossed it from Italy to get to the land they left 2000 years before, Palestine or, as they preferred to call it, Eretz Yisrael. In fact, Italy - responsible of Fascist Racial Laws during the war - later granted them protection and the possibility to leave from their coasts. Great Britain took position against the mass migration, fearing the Arabs in the Region would become a minority irritated by the circumstances. Ben-Gurion charged the Mossad LeAliyah Bet, the ancestor of the Israeli Secret Intelligence Service, with the operation of bringing to Eretz Yisrael the greatest number of Jews and lobbying for the recognition of the State of Israel among the International Community. Yehuda Arazi and Ada Sereni were leading the operation. The director met witnesses and experts as well as Yehuda Araz
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Enzo Chaim Sereni (1905-1944) was an Italian Zionist, co-founder of Kibbutz Givat Brenner, a celebrated intellectual, and a Jewish Brigade officer best known for his heroism in parachuting into Nazi-occupied Italy in World War II, where he was captured and executed in Dachau.
Sereniâs wealthy assimilated Italian family was both culturally eminent and Jewishly involved; for example, his father was physician to the Italian king Victor Emanuel III and his uncle was head of the organization of Jewish communities in Italy. While still a teen, Sereni became one of Italyâs first Zionists after attending and being inspired by the Thirteenth Zionist Congress in Carlsbad (1923).