Haapalah / Aliyah Bet

When the Nazis came to power in Germany, Benjamin Blumental and his family sailed to Palestine,
Aboard the ship, the Captain invited Benjamin to the bridge, where his love for the sea was born.

BOSMAT בסמ"ת is an acronym, בית ספר מקצועי תיכוני להנדסאים וטכנאים מוסמכים, for Technical Vocational School.

In 1933, BOSMAT בסמ"ת opened, replacing the Reali Technical School, which prepared students for the Technion, as s 4 year vocational secondary school.

In 1938, Dr. Shlomo Bardin founded the Marine High School in BOSMAT בסמ"ת, which undertook training for Palyam פלי"ם.

Benyamin Telem served as Commander aboard INS Palmach.
In 1957, he served as Commander aboard INS Yaffo.

In 1956, during the Suez Crisis, Benyamin Telem served as head of branch operations of the Israeli Navy,
In 1957, shortly after the war, he was appointed commander of the destroyer INS Yaffo, a position he held for two years.

Benyamin Telem served as a Naval officer in the Six-Day War, and the War of Attrition.
He was sent to France to head פרויקט "שלכת, the building of missile boats at the Cherbourg Shipyard,

From 1972-1975, Benyamin Telem served as Commanders-in-Chief.

In 1976, Benyamin Telem was releases from service.

On the first day the Six Day War, Benyamin Telem headed the task force that included INS Yaffo and two torpedo boats סט"רים, to secure a raid nt Port Said بورسعيد‎ by Sheyetet 13 שייטת, led by Zeev Almog,

In October, 1973, Benyamin Telem and his intelligence officer, Rami Luntz, prepared for war, contrary to the opinion of then-Chief of Staff, David Elazar, and then-director of Military Intelligence, Eli Zeira.
On Yom Kippur, October 6, 1973, Benyamin Telem sent five missile boats under the command of Captain Yomi Barkai to patrol the waters opposite the Syrian naval base at Latakiya.
Intelligence reported that Syrian missile boats were approaching the Tyre area, off the Lebanese coast, which would put them in range to fire missiles at Haifa.
The first sea battle in history between two missile-firing forces was about to begin, and none of the IDF's ground commanders was aware of it.
Benyamin Telem cites: "Ten at night. Eight hours after the start of the war. General Staff HQ announced that the commander of the navy was requested to come and present plans. At that time the missile boats were almost in Latakiya; HQ knew nothing about it."
He sent his deputy, who "suspected rightfully that the chief of staff was not all that much in the picture about the Navy" and extracted from the surprised Chief of Staff, David Elazar a half-hearted authorization to proceed with the battle.
The battle ended with a success restoring to the navy the honor it had lost in the Six-Day War.

At his funeral, Aluf (Ret.) אלוף בדימוס Benyamin Telem בנימין תלם was eulogized by IAF Commander Eliezer Marom אליעזר מרום, who cited: "חיל הים נפרד מאחד מענקיו"