Israel was armed by Jewish mobsters from America and the Soviet Union
In 1945, the Jewish Agency, the pre-state Israeli government headed by David Ben-Gurion, created a vast clandestine arms-purchasing-and-smuggling network throughout the United States. The operation was placed under the aegis of the Haganah, the underground forerunner of the Israel Defense Forces, and involved hundreds of American Jews from all walks of life.
The arms-smuggling operation was centered in a rented two-room suite in the Hotel Fourteen, located at 14 East 60th Street in New York. Teddy Kollek, who later became the popular longtime mayor of Jerusalem, ran the day-to-day operations of the arms procurement efforts.
Ben-Gurion used the Jewish mob to help create Israel and sent them to purchase the kinds of heavy armaments they had not been able to obtain. This included aircraft, artillery pieces, tanks, antiaircraft guns and other forms of heavy equipment.
The Israeli's learned that the Mafia controlled the port of New York, and they had no scruples about contacting underworld figures, they approached Jewish mob leader Meyer Lansky and asked him to help get weapons loaded onto ships bound for Israel. Lansky said he would handle it. Lansky contacted Albert Anastasia and Joe Adonis, who controlled the longshoremen’s union and the docks.
They helped Israeli agents conceal the arms purchased for Israel, while arms bound for Egypt mysteriously fell overboard. Illegal consignments of military hardware, some of it brand new and still packed in oil and straw, were then secreted onto ships that happened to be bound for Israel.
Israel also obtained arms through "operation balak", which was a mission by the Soviet Union to arm Israel with war planes, machine guns and millions of rounds of ammunition. If it wasnt for this operation theres no way israel would of won the 1948 war.
