“We’ve found the Altalena. We’re making history,” screamed the press statement released by Itamar Ben-Gvir. What does the national security minister have to do with a ship sunk in 1949? With elections approaching, all means are justified to get a headline, and all the more so if it involves a hot potato like the Altalena, a ship carrying weapons to the Irgun militia that has served as a vehicle for right-wing incitement against the left for almost 80 years.
