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Photo Jewish Vintage Big S.S. Israel ZIM Company 1st Ship Zionist Benor Kalter
Photo Jewish Vintage Big S.S. Israel ZIM Company 1st Ship Zionist Benor Kalter
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Jewish Vintage Big Photo S.S. Israel ZIM Company 1st Ship Zionist Benor Kalter
SS Israel was the first ship to be completed for ZIM. She and her sister, SS Zion, were built in 1955 and 1956 respectively, by the Deutsche Werft in Hamburg, under the Reparation Payments Agreement.
SS Israel was the first to reach Haifa in October 1955, followed a year later by the Zion. Each ship had four holds with a capacity of about 4000 weight tons including refrigerated space. In addition they had a drive in garage for up to 30 cars.
They were built to operate the Trans-Atlantic service, sailing from Haifa, Piraeus, Naples, Gibraltar, Funchal to New York. The primary purpose was to bring Jews back to their ancient homeland.
24 x 18 cm
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