Hotel Fourteen, New York, New York, United States of America

Street East 60th Street
City New York
State/ Province New York
Country United States of America

Narrative

Hotel Fourteen, nicknamed 'Kibbutz Fourteen', was a residential hotel above the Copacabana Club, owned by Fanny and Ruby Barnett, who put the hotel at the disposal of David Ben-Gurion, who lived and worked there on his visits to run a weapons pipeline from the United States to Palestine.
Rudolph Sonneborn, Manhattan-based petrochemical industrialist, was the key figure in the operations, and met frequently with David Ben-Gurion at the hotel, and in the El Patio Room, at the Hotel McAlpin.

References

  1. ארזי Tennenbaum Arazi, Yehuda 'Alon'
  2. קולק Kollek, Tivadar Theodor 'Teddy'