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In the 1960 film Exodus, Paul Newman played the lead role of Ari Ben Canaan.12
In the film, his character is a member of the Haganah, a Zionist military organization. Although Ari Ben Canaan served with the British during World War II, he fights against them in the film to help establish a Jewish homeland in Palestine.1