Shmuel Yanai

The engines on Henrietta Szold failed and Rafi towed it to the Syrna Island Gulf, where they were delayed a few days until the problem was fixed.

[3] The Haganah escorts remained with the immigrants during the first deportation phase and escaped the detention camp with the help of 'Mossad Aliyah Bet'.

On March 17, 1948, the Naval Service (precursor of the Israeli Sea Corps) was established and the Palyam members were ordered to join it.

and in 1954 obtained an engineering and management master's degrees, becoming one of the first IDF officers to study academically abroad.

In the 1960s he worked under Tel Aviv-Yafo's mayor Yehoshua Rabinovtch developing the city's outskirts: Hayarkon bridge; "Menashiya"; "Shikun Lamed" and "Ramat Aviv Gimmel" neighborhoods.

In 2001 he published with Yosef Almog and the Palyam Fund a book titled "The Gates Are Open, Collection of Memories, Clandestine Immigration".

In 2003 he was the entrepreneur and historical adviser of Gan Ha'apala, located at the western end of Bugrashov street overlooking the Tel Aviv seashore.