THE NEW YORK TIMES, Aug. 12, 1946 

* Operation Igloo - Jewish holocaust survivors
* Haifa Harbor standoff - Mandate Palestine 

The top of the front page has a three column photo with heading: "Illegal Immigrants Seeking To Enter Palestine" And a two column heading reads: "Haifa Port Area Isolated; 2 New Refugee Ships Near" (see images)

Complete with 38 pages, rag edition in nice condition.

Background: On August 11, 1946, a rare and historically decisive standoff unfolded in Haifa Harbor as British naval forces intercepted the blockade-running refugee ships Yagur and Henrietta Szold, carrying over 1,200 Jewish Holocaust survivors seeking sanctuary in Mandate Palestine. What makes this specific day remarkably notable is that it served as the immediate trigger for Operation Igloo—the British government's dramatic policy pivot away from detaining clandestine immigrants domestically at Atlit Camp in favor of forced offshore deportation. Confronted by thousands of local Jewish residents breaking through military cordons to protest at the docks, British forces enforced a citywide curfew and utilized military troopships to forcefully transfer the survivors, making the passengers of these two vessels the very first of over 53,000 Jewish refugees to be deported and interned in British camps on Cyprus between 1946 and 1949.