Rekhesh ( he, רֶכֶשׁ, ''lit.'' Acquisitions) was the arms and munitions procurement branch of the
Haganah Jewish defense force in
Mandatory Palestine
Mandatory Palestine ( ar, فلسطين الانتدابية '; he, פָּלֶשְׂתִּינָה (א״י) ', where "E.Y." indicates ''’Eretz Yiśrā’ēl'', the Land of Israel) was a geopolitical entity established between 1920 and 1948 ...
, in the middle 1940s, at a time when the British were not allowing the Jews to have arms.
Rekhesh stole arms from British and Allied military bases, bought weapons on the
black market and imported them from legitimate suppliers.
[Adelman, 2008, p. 156.]
The organization was expert at modifying, dismantling, and packing weapons so that they could be smuggled into Palestine without detection by the British authorities.
Shaul Avigur
Shaul Avigur ( he, שאול אביגור; 11 September 1899 – 29 August 1978) was a founder of the Israeli Intelligence Community.
Biography
Avigur was born in Dvinsk (now Daugavpils in Latvia) under the name Saul Meyeroff (''later'' Meirov; ...
was head of the organization and
Ehud Avriel
Ehud Avriel ( he, אהוד אבריאל; born Georg Überall, 1917 – 27 August 1980) was an Israeli diplomat and politician who served as a member of the Knesset for Mapai between 1955 and 1957.
Biography
Born in Vienna in Austria-Hungary, Avr ...
one of its main operatives.
Early Operations of Israeli Intelligence, Jewish Agency for Israel
, Accessed 24 May 2009.
Notes
References
*Adelman, Jonathan R. (2008). ''The Rise of Israel: A History of a Revolutionary State''. Routledge.
*Deacon, Richard (1978). ''The Israeli Secret Service''. Taplinger Pub. Co. {{ISBN, 978-0-8008-4266-6
Haganah units
Arms trafficking