Ruslan (ship)

Menachem Ussishkin and Meir Dizengoff contacted the British Foreign Minister, Lord Curzon, and convinced him that they were not Bolsheviks.

At the time, Russia was in the midst of a civil war, and control of key provinces and government institutions changed rapidly between the Bolsheviks and the opposing forces.

[6] Several of the ship's passengers became important in Israeli culture when the State of Israel was founded in 1948, including historian Joseph Klausner, Zeev Rechter, Yehuda Magidovitch, the Ecole de Paris artist Isaac Frenkel Frenel, Moshe Frenkel,[7] and the cartoonist Arieh Navon.

[9][10] Aryeh Rafaeli (Tsantsifir), in the struggle for redemption, the book Russian Zionism from the 1917 Revolution to the Present, Tel Aviv: Dvir and Ayinot Publishers, 1936-1947, pp.

Ze'ev Hayam, Sea Routes - History of Israeli Shipping, Tel Aviv: Collaboration with Hayal Yami LeYisrael, 1972, pp.