The Midnighters

A documentary novel based on the memoirs of Martin Allen Ribakoff."You seven men are the Israeli Air Force!"With those words, a legend and a tradition were born.It was 1948. The handful of resourceful flyers who were then the entire Israeli Air Force faced desperate odds. In the air, it was British anti-aircraft fire. On the ground, bombs from the Arabs. Arms, ammunition, supplies had to be brought to Israel. This is the sction-filled story of the remarkable airlift that saved an infant nation in its first blazing battle for survival.