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arms to pre-state Israel, who was
part of Israel's first air force, who
witnessed countless historical
events and who flew more than
40 years ago with a new airline
called El Al, Mr. Newman has al-
ways been "a saver."
"I don't throw anything away,"
he says.
That's good news for Israel's
Air Force Museum, which is
about to receive Mr. Newman's
collection.
It is a collection comprising ev-
erything from postcards to nap-
kins bearing the logo of the
Hotel Stalingrad in Zatec,
Czechoslovakia, where Mr.
Newman went to retrieve arms.
There are telegrams and flying
assignments and photographs.
One picture features a young
Rudy Newman, cigarette in hand,
not long after he arrived in Israel.
His girlfriend, who is now his wife,
kept this very photo under her pil-
low.
Another photo shows the grave
of former Detroiter Stan Andrews.
It's a strange, tragic story with
many unanswered questions. Mr.
Newman pauses for a moment at
the picture, then turns the page.
"This was..." he says. Then, si-
lence.
"It's still hard for me to talk
about it."
udy Newman was born in
Detroit to Eugene Newman
and Viola Szekely. They
were immigrants from
Hungary, where Eugene had
been a university professor.
The couple had three sons and
a daughter and settled, in the
mid-1930s, in Michigan. Their
oldest son was named Rudy.
When Rudy was 6 his father
died. Soon afterward social ser-
vices removed the children from
the home, placing them in foster
care. Rudy lived with several dif-
ferent families, but it wasn't bad,
he says.
When he was 16, Rudy was a
student at Central High School.
World War II started. Rudy de-
cided he wanted to serve his coun-
try, so he told recruiters he was
17. His first training was as a ra-
dio navigator. He ended up a
fighter pilot in the Pacific.

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He returned to the United
States in 1946 and enrolled at
Michigan State College, where
he graduated in 1948. His next
step was law school at Wayne, but
he didn't stay long before heading
off for Israel.
The United Nations had de-
clared a partition plan in
November 1947, which called for
both Jewish and Arab-controlled
land in the area. The Arabs im-
mediately rejected any established
Jewish presence and started at-
tacking Jewish settlements.
To survive, the Jews needed
weapons. To get the weapons, the
Jews needed help.
In Palestine, David Ben-Gurion
called for the establishment of a
group of pilots who would secure
arms and other supplies, an op-
eration code-named "Yakum
Purkan." (Taken from the prayer
which includes the words, "May
salvation come from the sky.")
This would later evolve into
Mahal, about 5,000 volunteers
from throughout the world who
fought in Israel's military during
the War of Independence.
Rudy Newman describes his
initiation into the world of un-
derground arms dealing for Israel
as a kind of "cloak-and-dagger"
operation. Before being accepted
for the job, he was interviewed
in a "nondescript, obscure New
York City hotel room" by "an al-
leged American pilot."
Rudy Newman arrived in Israel
in March 1948. He stayed at the
Park Hotel (which still exists),
where other Jewish pilots were
based. It was just a handful of
men, but they looked great. They
had snappy uniforms and the re-
spect of everyone in Israel. People
literally looked in awe when they
went off on an assignment. And
the girls — well, the "girls all loved
you," Mr. Newman says. He rel-
ished every moment of it.
One of the girls who fell hard
for Rudy Newman was a pretty
blonde Israeli named Ann. When
the two married, all the volun-
teer pilots attended. Picking up a
photo showing himself, his new
bride and about 25 pilots, Mr.
Newman jokes, "I think half the
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