"Exodus" 2007

I just read Haggai Segal's column in Besheva (it's in Hebrew) where he comments satirically that 60 years after the Exodus clandestine immigrant ship landed in then Mandate Palestine, you remember, the one commanded by Paul Newman, that:-

Faced with the threat of a strike that would preven airplanes from landing last week, several thousands of English football fans were threatening to reache Israel illegally by sea