![Jewish refugees on board the Aliyah Bet ("illegal" immigration) ship "Atrato." [LCID: 85409]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/f0f42ea9-b61b-4dce-a2b9-bf3969aadfb2.jpg)
Aliyah Bet is the Hebrew term that refers to the clandestine immigration of Jews to Palestine between 1920 and 1948, when Great Britain controlled the area. Explore content related to wartime and postwar Aliyah Bet.
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![Aliyah Bet ("illegal" immigration) ship "Parita," carrying 850 Jewish refugees, lands on a sandbank off the Tel Aviv coast. [LCID: 13000]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/thumb/e7dac7ba-989c-48d8-bb4a-556675a9bdac.jpg)
![Aliyah Bet ("illegal" immigration) ship "Tiger Hill," carrying Jewish refugees from Europe, lands in Tel Aviv, Palestine. [LCID: 69440]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/thumb/32053339-2516-4458-a6c2-58a53c4620f7.jpg)
![Jewish refugees on board the Aliyah Bet ("illegal" immigration) ship "Atrato." [LCID: 85409]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/thumb/fd5adfc2-6db0-4222-91db-97eecfc18d88.jpg)
![A British policeman (left) organizes the arrest of passengers from the Aliyah Bet ("illegal" immigration) ship "Parita" after they ... [LCID: 13004]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/thumb/4e8e52ed-9dad-4eb1-84fe-68bbb7fbf959.jpg)
![Jewish refugee children unfurl the Jewish flag as they arrive at the Haifa port aboard Aliyah Bet ("illegal" immigration) ship SS ... [LCID: 69701]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/thumb/d7057529-7aac-4741-b503-bbb63321a1ad.jpg)
![British soldiers force Jewish refugees from Aliyah Bet ("illegal" immigration) ship "Theodor Herzl" through a disinfection station ... [LCID: 69911]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/thumb/fc30154a-1c6a-46de-8ffd-7431d136ed23.jpg)
![A young Jewish refugee, wounded while resisting British soldiers on board the Aliyah Bet ("illegal" immigration) ship "Knesset Israel, ... [LCID: 69146]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/thumb/8410be87-f330-4f8a-8718-339cfc0d860b.jpg)
![Refugees crowd the rail of the Aliyah Bet ("illegal" immigration) ship "Josiah Wedgwood," anchored at the Haifa port. [LCID: 76559]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/thumb/4ede0b82-2929-4ff8-8d4c-b868870a2124.jpg)
![Youths with camp numbers tattooed on their arms aboard Aliyah Bet ("illegal" immigration) ship "Mataroa," at the Haifa port. [LCID: 69100]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/thumb/0b6afc07-5c46-4a58-9198-de9515ec4ff8.jpg)