Illegal immigration מעפילים.. illegal Jewish immigration to the Land of Israel during the British Mandate and the return of Jews fleeing from the Nazis tortured

Illegal immigration מעפילים: 

Mafalam the word: a metaphor for the illegal Jewish immigration to the Land of Israel during the British Mandate. Has organized this migration as a result of the challenges imposed by the authority of the British Mandate in Palestine to Jewish immigration. The illegal immigration began in the end of the year: 1934, when the country reached a ship chartered organization Hkhalots החלוץ of Poland. After World War II he returned to the country a large number of Jews fleeing from the Nazis tortured, has helped them to return reformists Jews. But the British government arrested many of them and drove them out of the country to Cyprus and other countries. It is worth mentioning that the number of people who came to Palestine through illegal immigration estimated fifty thousand.