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Aliyah Dalet (Hebrew:, “Aliyah ‘D’” – dalet is the fourth letter of the Hebrew Alphabet) was the term used to refer to one of the methods used by Jews to emigrate illegally into Mandatory Palestine during the time period between 1934 and 1948. The famous one – Aliyah Bet – is fairly well known. Aliyah Dalet was different in that it was a process where displaced Jews from Europe were brought into Palestine with false papers.

General Description
The British Authorities limited the number of Jewish immigrants permitted to come into Palestine after World War II largely to appease the Arab population in the region. And while Aliyah Bet was one method that was used to get Jews into the country, it had only a limited success rate with many ships being caught and displaced persons either sent back to the country of origin or held in captivity. Aliyah Dalet was a process where displaced Jews were provided with falsified documents (e.g. as tourists from some  European country coming to see holy sites or creating false marriages with individuals who had permission to live in Palestine or British citizens moving within the British Empire). There were a variety of methods used to provide these papers including using Passports from sympathetic members of ‘acceptable’ countries. Individuals were sometimes put together in falsified family units to make these travel arrangements seem more realistic.

Routes
Points of operation and departure were primarily in Marseilles, France and  Milan, Italy. These countries for a variety of reasons were not cooperative with the British government’s efforts to keep Jews out of the British Empire in general and out of Palestine specifically. There were less efforts to crackdown on these sorts of activities at the time.

Lack of Publicity
This particular method of bringing Jews into Palestine was not nearly as publicized as Aliyah Bet. It is likely that this was a conscious decision by the early Israeli government so as not to cause strife with the European nations whose documents had been altered in this process. As a method it appears to have resulted in a higher percent of refugees getting into Palestine than Aliyah Bet.