Commander Of The Exodus

world internationally renowned Israeli writer Yoram Kaniuk
turns his hand to nonfiction to bring us his most
important work yet. Commander of the Exodus animates the
story of Yossi Harel a modern-day Moses who defied the
blockade of the British Mandate to deliver more than 24000
displaced Holocaust survivors to Palestine while the rest
of the world closed its doors. Of the four expeditions
commanded by Harel between 1946 and 1948 the voyage of the
Exodus left the deepest impression on public consciousness
quickly becoming a beacon for Zionism and a symbol to all
that neither guns cannons nor warships could stand in the
way of the human need for a home. With grace and
sensitivity Kaniuk shows the human face of history. He
pays homage to the young Israeli who was motivated not by
politics or personal glory but by the pleading eyes of the
orphaned children languishing on the shores of Europe.
Commander of the Exodus is both an unforgettable tribute
to the heroism of the dispossessed and a rich evocation of
the vision and daring of a man who took it upon himself to
reverse the course of history.