Fight Over the Fallen
Naaman Cohen is a 59-year-old history teacher from Tel Aviv. About a year and a half ago, Cohen wrote to Mayor Ron Huldai to draw his attention to the monument for the battle over the Altalena arms ship, which took place in June 1948. The memorial on the seafront promenade across from Gan London commemorates the 16 members of the Irgun who were killed when the Israel Defense Forces opened fire on the ship, which was carrying nearly 1,000 immigrants, and weapons slated for the Irgun. Cohen insists that the list of fallen be expanded to include the names of three IDF soldiers who were killed during the operation: Pesach Vlodinger, Moshe Chaim Katz and Yaakov Fried.