REVISED EDITION 2019 On Christmas eve 1969, five small Boats slipped out of Cherbourg harbor after midnight into the teeth of a Force Nine gale That sent freighters scurrying for cover.
As the boat.
The vessels would be refueled at sea by Israeli merchant ships spaced along the 3,000-mile escape route.
In a brazen caper, the Israelis were now running off with them.
The boats, ordered by Israel from a local shipyard, had been embargoed for more than a year for political reasons by France.
REVISED EDITION 2019 On Christmas eve 1969, five small Boats slipped out of Cherbourg harbor after midnight into the teeth of a Force Nine gale That sent freighters scurrying for cover