YOSSI HAREL, COMMANDER OF EXODUS, DIED
DeFacto Agency
April 28 2008
Armenia
YEREVAN, 28.04.08. DE FACTO. Born in 1918, the name of Yossi Harel will
remain for always associated with extraordinary Exodus ship. Between
1945 and 1948, this man of bravery, audacity and conscience, saved
the life with more than 24 000 clandestine immigrants.
He is deceased in Tel Aviv Friday April 26, 2008, at 90, an independent
journalist Jean Eckian told DE FACTO Agency.
Controlling the great operations of clandestine immigration, it is
aboard ship "Knesset of Israel" that its thoughts will go for the
Armenian people.
He was just 28 years old when, in November 1946, coming from
Yugoslavia, he skirts the Turkish coasts with his 4000 refugees. One
moment of eternity then reminds to him the memory of the Franz
Werfeld’s book "The Forty Days of Musa Dagh" which he had read being
a child. Seizing a telescope, Yossi Harel will seek the glorious
summit, which had seen resisting to the Turkish oppressor a handle
of valiant Armenians. He will see it with far and will then have a
thought moved for those by between-them which had left the life in
the name of freedom.
The man loved the Armenian people. He estimated himself near to him
by the sensitivity which emerged some, brings back his friend of
childhood, the writer Yoram Kaniuk.