from Jewish News Weekly

Rehovot, israel | Sitting in the laundry room of what used to be a working kibbutz,
it is impossible to guess where or how the brave kibbutzniks made their way underground
to the secret factory that produced nearly 3 million bullets in three years and helped
win Israel’s War of Independence in 1948.

Everything at the Ayalon Institute is exactly as it was six decades ago, but for the
fact that the kibbutz is now a museum and there is no British army station just down
the hill and under whose nose about 40 men and women contributed clandestinely to the
founding of Israel.

The Ayalon Institute’s fascinating story is about a top-secret operation that took place
during the years between the end of World War II and Israel’s War of Independence.

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Photo by Michael Weinberg Photography of Scranton and Clarks Summit, Pennsylvania.

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