Growing up, Ari also joins Haganah but his fiancée Dafna dies at the hands of Palestinian Arabs while he fights for Israel’s independence with his brother Akiva who becomes a terrorist leader.īack in 1946, the Exodus reaches Palestine. They work hard and fight for Israel’s independence from Britain against Palestinian Arabs during World War I and later serve as soldiers in an underground militia called Haganah that defends Jewish settlers from attacks by Palestinians. However, when they arrive there they find it’s not as prosperous as other countries. After their father is murdered during a pogrom, they move to Palestine. Two young shoemakers named Jossi and Yakov live in the Pale of Settlement, which is the only region in Russia where Jews are allowed to reside.

Kitty can’t understand how Ari would risk 300 lives for his cause, but Mark explains it by telling her about Jossi and Yakov (Ari’s father and uncle). The public turns in favor of these Jews, so the British have no choice but to let them go. This allows Ari to tell people that they’ll explode if boarded and that the kids are on hunger strike. Ari’s plan is to send a news report on what’s happening, which will alert the British army to block them. He asks her for help working at the camp but she initially refuses until she sees how miserable the refugee children are especially Karen who becomes her ward and assistantģ00 children board the Exodus and set off. When Ari meets Mark he also meets Kitty who shares an instant attraction with him.

Elsewhere David Ben Ami and Ari Ben Canaan discuss a plan to illegally move 300 Jewish children to Palestine by using a ship called Exodus. Although he says he’s there on holiday, British soldiers are concerned about him documenting them confining Jews to refugee camps so that they cannot travel to Palestine. It begins in Cyprus in 1946 with Mark Parker meeting his childhood friend Kitty Fremont. Exodus is a novel that explores themes of faith, duty, sacrifice, and freedom through the tale of the creation of Israel.

The book exodus by leon uris