With the founding of the IDF in early 1948, the Israeli Navy was therefore formed from a core of the following personnel: In October 1948, a submarine chaser was purchased from the United States. These ships were refurbished by a newly formed naval repair facility with the assistance of two private shipbuilding and repair companies. These were to become the Navy's first ships and saw service in the 1948 Arab–Israeli War.Īt the outset of the 1948 war and with the founding of the IDF, the Israeli Navy consisted of four former Aliyah Bet ships impounded in Haifa harbor. Royal Navy volunteers, meanwhile, rejoined the Haganah.ĭuring the last months of British Mandate in Palestine, the former Royal Navy volunteers started work on the captured clandestine immigration ships (known as the Fleet of Shadows) in Haifa harbor, salvaged a few and pressed them into service. With the end of the Second World War and the start of the Jewish insurgency in Mandatory Palestine, Palyam members took part in clandestine immigration activities, bringing Europe's Jews to Palestine, as well as commando actions against Royal Navy deportation ships. Two of them served with the Fleet Air Arm (FAA), one of whom was Edmond Wilhelm Brillant and the other Zvi Avidror. A few reached sea service and combat service. In 1942, eleven hundred Haganah volunteers joined the Royal Navy, mostly in technical roles (12 of them were officers by the nomination agreement of the Jewish Agency with the Royal Navy). The Jewish merchant marine was also raised, operating SS Tel-Aviv and cargo ships such as Atid. 1943 witnessed the founding of the Palyam, the naval branch of the Palmach, whose training was undertaken at the maritime school. In 1938, encouraged by the Jewish Agency, Shlomo Bardin founded the Marine High School in Bosmat, the Technion's Junior Technical College.
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