Haapalah / Aliyah Bet

Eliahu Ben-Horin served as Editor of a Zionist newspaper.

Eliahu Ben Horin spent seven years with a Zionist pioneer labor brigade, working in construction and agriculture.

After the Bolshevik Revolution, Eliahu Ben Horin bribed his way across the Romanian-Russian border, to smuggle his family and other Jews out of Russia.

In 1921, Eliahu Ben Horin became a member of of kvutzat haSharon קבוצת השרון, and settled at Ihud HaSharon - Gevat.

Rafael Medoff cites: "Ben-Horin crisscrossed Europe between 1937 and 1939 on behalf of the Irgun's effort to bring unauthorized Jewish immigrants to Palestine. He played the key role in facilitating the dramatic voyage of SS Patria, which brought eight hundred half-starved immigrants to Palestine after a harrowing eight-week journey in the summer of 1939."
Correction: The voyage Rafael Medoff refers to is that of SS Parita.

Zeev Jabotinsky was exiled from Palestine by the British.

On March 13, 1938, SS Samaria arrived in New York, carrying Zeev Jabotinsky, and two of his senior aides, Aaron Kopelowicz and Eliahu Ben-Horin.

On July 13, 1939, SS Parita פאריטה sailed from Constanţa Galatz, organized by Betar and Revisionists. carrying 850 passengers, 540 of them, Betar members from Poland and Romania.
Zionism-Israel.com cites SS Parita פאריטה carried 856 passengers.
Maurice Tiefenbrunner cites he boarded SS Parita פאריטה at Marseille, and 950 passengers boarded in Romania.
Michael Zalampas cites SS Parita פאריטה carried 875 passenger.
Rafael Medoff cites SS Parita פאריטה "brought 600 half-starved immigrants to Palestine after an eight-week journey."
Martin Sugarman cites: SS Parita carried "950 Jewish refugees on a vessel meant to carry 250!"
Paul H. Silverstone's Aliyah Bet Project cites: on June 26, 1939, Bute sailed from Sète, carrying 80, and was renamed Parita; she arrived at Constanţa, and on July 13, 1939, Parita sailed from Constanţa , carrying 850 passengers, including 540 Betar members.
Jürgen Rohwer cites: Menachem Begin and Mordekai Katz organized the transportion for 400 Betarim and 200 Maapilim from Warszawa, in a sealed train to Constanţa. ; in addition, another 120 Maapilim from Romania, so that SS Parita פאריטה carried 800 passengers (including the 80 passengers who boarded in Marseille).

Eliahu Ben-Horin played an important role in facilitating the sailing of SS Parita פאריטה.

On July 7, 1939, Tuvia Peretz left Ciechanowiec for Czyzewo, and then took the train to Warszawa.
Tuvia Peretz cites: "I arrived in Warsaw and went to 5 Havatzimska Street. That was the Emigrants Hotel, the meeting place for Polish Jews going to the Holy Land. There were about 500 of us and 300 more from Roumania and France were to join us soon. We waited four long days in anxious anticipation."
From Warszawa, Tuvia and his group went to Shniatim, on the Poland Rumania border, where they were joined by 300 other Maaplim.
"We were told that from Shniatim we would proceed to Constanta, a port on the Black Sea. It would then be a two-week sea voyage to Israel."
"The order came, “Everyone carry your own baggage. We are walking to the port area." We were in a surging crowd walking to the dock. Among us were 300 Jews from France and Roumania. Far off, we could see the Prita, the ship that awaited us."

On July 13, 1939, Shlomo Zlotolow sailed on SS Parita from Constanţa.

On July 13, 1939, Michel Kolsky sailed on SS Parita from Constanţa.

Maurice 'Monju' Tiefenbrunner contacted his brother, Philip, who lived in Belgium.
Maurice 'Monju' Tiefenbrunner cites: "He had contacts with a Belgian consul in Holland and promised to try and get me a visa to Belgium. I immediately sent him my passport and he actually succeeded in obtaining this precious visa. He returned my passport, which reached me a day before its expiry."
Martin Sugarmen cites: "A brother in Antwerp managed to obtain papers for Maurice (Tiefenbrunner) to enter Belgium, which he achieved with hair-raising adventures via Warsaw, Prague and Rotterdam. From Antwerp, he contacted Jewish agents of the Irgun, illegally transporting Jewish refugees into British Palestine (Israel). Via Paris and Marseilles, he made it to a ship with a group of 20 others."
"After 70 days instead of the intended 10, of wanderings, touching Rhodes, Smyrna and other ports, and begging for food from passing liners (including 20 bottles of beer from one passing cruise ship), his group took over the ship from the Greek crew, hoisted the Israeli flag and then beached the vessel on the sea front of Tel-Aviv on Aug 22nd 1939. It was a Friday night and thousands of Tel-Avivans came out to greet them with food. Then they were promptly interned at Sarafand Army camp by the British! Two weeks later war broke out and Maurice was consequently made a "legal" citizen as an amnesty was declared. "

Maurice 'Monju' Tiefenbrunner made it to Marseille.
Maurice 'Monju' Tiefenbrunner cites: "We were to buy tickets on a pleasure boat, which was making trips around the Marseilles harbour. Some of the crews on these boats were bribed to take us to our ship, which was docked outside French waters. In the evening we bought our tickets; and after some cruising around in the dark, we were taken to our ship. When everyone had arrived, we were only 80 people. On board, we were told why we had been kept waiting so long. A group of 180 people, coming from Switzerland, were to join us. Unfortunately, this group did not make it; they were turned back. This ship was meant to take about 250 people and naturally 80 of us could not possibly bear the cost of the passage. So our organisers communicated with a group who were waiting in Romania, and they would join us in Constanza.
We finally left the shores of France on June 10th 1939."

In Palestine, Eliahu Ben-Horin served as Editor of the Hebrew daily, Doar Hayom, and Editor-in-Chief of the Palestine News Service.
His book, "The Middle East - Crossroads of History", published in 1943, contained a transfer proposal.
After 1943, Eliahu Ben-Horin worked with Herbert Hoover to implement a transfer plan.
Philip E. Hitti, in revewing "The Middle East - Crossroads of History", in "The New York Times", cites: "those Arabs may not be particularly anxious to be transferred, that some of them claim descent from the Canaanites of pre-Hebraic times, that the Moslems among them consider the Islamic conquest of Palestine in the seventh Christian century a gift from Allah that cannot be relinquished without compromising their faith."
Colonel John Henry Patterson, who had commanded the First Zionist Regiment, in response to Philip E. Hitti's review, cites: "I could not refrain from smiling at Mr. Hitti's 'strongest' argument against this plan - namely that the Arabs got Palestine as 'a gift from Allah that cannot be relinquished without compromising their faith'. Is Hitti ignorant of the fact that the same Allah gave Palestine to the Jews over 2,500 years before the Moslem faith was revealed to the Arabs?"

In early 1943, Eliahu Ben-Horin was appointed Executive Director of the newly established American Resettlement Committee for Uprooted European Jewry, an arm of the NZO.

In 1943, Eliahu Ben-Horin, editor of a Zionist newspaper and member of the Revisionist Zionist movement, cites, “I suggest that the Arabs of Palestine and Transjordania be transferred to Iraq, or a united Iraq-Syrian state. That means the shifting of about 1,200,00 pesons. (Thus) the Palestinian Arabs will not be removed to a foreign land but to an Arab land…”.
He cites: "Should the Palestinian Arabs persist in their objection to and obstruction of Jewish settlement in Palestine, a sound plan for the transfer of the Palestinian Arabs to Iraq could be evolved, which would be highly beneficial to the country of Iraq, to the Arab settlers from Palestine, and to a final solution of the Palestinian and Jewish problems."
Chaim Simons cites: "In a book by Eliahu Ben-Horin which was published in 1943, the author observed, "A certain project dealing with the transfer of the Palestinian Arabs to Iraq was welcomed by the Iraqian Government. The outbreak of the war unfortunately interrupted the negotiations over the materialisation of such a project."
"Ben-Horin did not mention the author of the project by name, but it seems very likely that he is referring to Norman's plan, since unlike the instigators of several other contemporary proposals for the transfer of Arabs to Iraq, Norman did not just make a proposal, but entered into actual negotiations via Bell on its implementation."
Dr. Eduard Benes, President of Czechoslovakia, regarding the transfer plan, cites: "We are now transferring the Sudeten Germans from Czechoslovakia to Germany, and their number is twice the number of the Arabs you have in Palestine. We should add that this transfer of Sudeten Germans was a compulsory transfer approved by the Great Powers."

on January 14, 1946, Eliahu Ben-Horin was confirmed as a permanent member of the staff of the American Zionist Emergency Council.