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Sign: Metula - Illegal Immigration

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Ayun Stream Nature Reserve, Ayun St, Metula, Israel
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סמל המועצה המקומית מטולה
The symbol of the Metula local council

כאן עברו המעפילים בין השנים 1920–1923, כשמטולה היתה אחת מתחנות המעבר לארץ ישראל משטח המנדט הצרפתי בשנים 1934-1933. המבריחים, שקיבלו כסף רב, היו מביאים אותם למטולה ולכפר גלעדי. לא פעם נשדדו העולים בדרך. תושבי מטולה החביאו את הבאים בבתיהם, ואף ביימו חתונות פיקטיביות שבסופן העבירו את כל "החוגגים" במשאיות למרכז הארץ, הרחק מאזור הגבול.

Illegal immigrants passed through here between 1920-1923, when Metullah was used as a transit stop into Israel from the French mandatory territory in Syria and Lebanon.
The flow of illegal immigrants increased in 1933-1934.
Often, immigrants were robbed along the way. The residents of Metullah hid the newcomers in their homes, and would even stage fictitious weddings, at the end of which all the "celebrants would be transported in trucks to the center of the country, far from the border.
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