Assassination of Bernadotte; Altalena Affair; 'Until Death'

Reference code : VD - 138

Production date: 01/01/1995
Format: PAL
Color: YES
Language: Hebrew
Event date - from: 01/01/1945
Event date - to: 31/12/1948

Description

1. Assassination of Count Bernadotte - film by David Fischer (Channel 1).
Testimonies of intelligence and security during beginnings of state on surveillance and concerns over activities of Bernadotte in Israel. Murder and investigation. Did the Israeli government do enough to prevent the murder?, Lies and cover- investigation, extraction from investigations, withholding evidence. Lehi members in prison, blocking the investigation and possibility to caputre the murderers. Closing the case .
The Agranat Commission (1950) to examine the reasons for discovery of the murderers. With Geula Cohen.
2. Altalena affair - film by Ilana Tzur (Channel 2).
Purchase of ship by Etzel headquarters in diaspora, Paris. Attempts to stop the ship, Eliyahu Lankin describes the attempts of evasion. Atmosphere on the ship.
Development of events and placing ultimatum to evacuate the ship and delivering weapons.
Menachem Begin getting onboard the ship. Shooting the ship off the coast of Tel Aviv and its abandonment.
Menachem Begin speech on underground radio - 'Never a civil war'.
3. 'Until Death' - assassination of Lord Moyne, film by Yehuda Kaveh.
Interviews with Binyamin Gefner, Yitzhak Shamir. Egyptian film reconstructs the murder.
History of lives and plans of Eliyahu Beit-Zuri and Eliyahu Hakim.
Assassination, capture and interrogation. Severe reactions to murder by Zionist leadership.
Trial, execution and burying the two bodies on Mount Herzl. With Yitzhak Shamir.