Haapalah / Aliyah Bet

Avrasha Stawsky was arrested in Palestine, during the early 1930s, in connection with the Arlosoroff Affair
He was charged with murder, but was subsequently acquitted.

Avrasha Strwasky was called Stawsky, the Rescuer for his work in smuggling Jewish refugees out of Europe, in the early 1940s.

Avrasha Stawsky was shot in the knee by IDF troops, and was taken to a nearby hospital for treatment.
While awaiting treatment, he developed a blood infection and went into shock, and died.

The Battle of Altalena אלטלנה resulted in the loss of 19 lives, among them, Abraham Stavsky, who was struck by bullets while in the water, but did not die of his wounds, he died of a heart attack.
16 ITzL אצ"ל fighters were killed in the confrontation, and 3 IDF soldiers:
* 6 ITzL אצ"ל fighters were killed in the Kfar Vitkin כפר ויתקין area
* 10 ITzL אצ"ל fighters were killed on Tel Aviv תל-אביב beach.
* 2 IDF soldiers were killed:at Kfar Vitkin כפר ויתקין
* 1 IDF soldier was killed in Tel Aviv תל-אביב
Machal.org.il cites: three Machalniks who were killed by Haganah הגנה fire on the stricken Altalena אלטלנה.
After the shelling of Altalena אלטלנה, more than 200 members of ITzL אצ"ל were arrested on David Ben-Gurion's orders.
Most of them were released several weeks later, with the exception of five senior commanders, Moshe Hason, Eliyahu Lankin ,Yaakov Meridor, Bezalel Amitzur and Hillel Kook, who detained for more than two months, were released on August 27, 1948.
Jerold S. Auerbach cites: "Yitzhak Ben Ami was one of the so-called “Bergson Boys” who had come to the United States on the eve of World War II to raise funds for the rescue of European Jews and shatter the silence about the Nazi program of annihilation. Auerbach writes that while the Altalena was still offshore, Ben Ami, who had managed to disembark, was on the beach with other Irgun men when Israeli soldiers suddenly raked the area with bullets and mortar shells. As he and a friend took refuge in a sandy foxhole, Ben Ami asked him if he had read Josephus. “Do you remember the description of the final days in the defense of Jerusalem…[when] the Judeans continued to massacre each other…Doesn’t this look like the Third destruction of the Temple?"