Nancy Sinatra, the daughter of Frank Sinatra, recently posted on X (previously Twitter) about her father’s covert involvement in importing an estimated cash of $1 million in March 1948. Nancy Sinatra described her father’s role in the Nakba as “a truly inspiring story”. The Haganah, along with its elite units, called the Palmach, mounted military operations including massacres against Palestinians to drive them out of their towns and villages.
Long-standing ties with the Jews
Frank Sinatra was a strong advocate and supporter of Jewish issues in Israel and the United States. Tom Santopietro claimed that Sinatra was a “lifelong sympathiser with Jewish causes.” During the Holocaust and the creation of Israel Sinatra took part in Hollywood demonstrations and shows that supported Jews. Sinatra was cast in an Israeli movie “Cast a Giant Shadow” about killing Palestinians in 1964. Later, in 1972, Frank also received Israel’s medal of honour, for his role in funding the Israeli colonization projects and films.
Cooperation with Teddy Kollek
In March 1948, Sinatra assisted Teddy Kollek, then a Haganah representative and later mayor of Occupied Jerusalem, in covertly transporting about $1 million in cash to a New York dock. United States had imposed an arms embargo and federal agents had placed Teddy Kollek under surveillance.
Sinatra carried the sack of cash out of the back exit as Kollek went out the front entrance to divert federal agents. In order to guarantee that the required cash reaches the clandestine armaments operation intended for Jewish forces in Palestine, Sinatra subsequently transferred the money to an Irish ship captain at a wharf in New York. The funds were then allocated to slaughter and displace hundreds of thousands of Palestinians during the Nakba.
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