270 ENDGAME AND AFTERMATH 1944–1955
New arrivals
Refugees from Eastern Europe, Turkey, and
Tunisia prepare to go ashore at Haifa in early
summer of 1949. In 1950 the Israeli Law of
Return was passed, giving any Jew the legal
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