The Seder of Solidarity

I came across the following extraordinary account by Golda Meir of Pesach in 1946; it exists in slightly different versions in various places:

On April 8, 1946 I received a telegram from Italy in which it was written:

“We are 1100 Jewish refugees. We boarded the Dov Hoz boat at La Spezia Port in order to depart for Palestine which is our last hope. [British] Police arrested us on board. We are declaring that we shall not leave the boat. We demand permission to continue to Eretz Yisrael. We declare...