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Ayalon Institute

location_on Ness Ziona, Center District, Israel
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Ayalon Institute an underground bullet manufacturing unit, positioned on Kibbutz Hill in Rehovot, Israel, disguised as a kibbutz that ran a laundry service. The factory turned into established in 1945 and synthetic ammunition till 1948; nowadays it's miles a museum and country wide historic web page. It turned into “secretly created in much less than a month, eight meters underground and become run with the aid of the Haganah. In the 30s, Zionist leaders in then British Mandatory Palestine determined that they were going to need guns to shield themselves and to combat for his or her independence. Plans to smuggle weapons and set up clandestine palms factories were advanced and carried out.

The Sten submachine gun, the personal weapon of the Palmach, become notably clean to build clandestinely, however the Haganah had issue acquiring the 9 mm bullets neede for the guns. The head of the clandestine Israel Military Industries, Yosef Avidar later head of the Central Command, devised a plan to smuggle in machines for a secret manufacturing facility to make the bullets. Twelve machines wanted for bullet manufacturing punching, drilling, reducing etc. Brass have been efficiently bought in Poland in 1938. Because of the worldwide scenario back than, the Zionists should most effective ship them as a ways as Beirut Lebanon.

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