WORLD MACHAL - Volunteers from overseas in the Israel Defense Forces

1947–‘49

The Siege of Jerusalem

  By Maurice Ostroff        Immediately after approval of the November 1947 UN partition resolution[1], Arab militias initiated a siege of Jerusalem, preventing

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Smoky Simon’s Speech

WORLD MACHAL REUNIONYOM HAZICHARON SERVICE ONWEDNESDAY, 7TH MAY, 2008   Smoky Simon, Chairman of Word Machal, formerly Chief of Air Operations in Israel’s

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War of Independence

Contents: Historical Summary Haganah and IZL Personal Stories ’47-’49 Non Jewish volunteers     The 1948 War of Independence in a nutshell By

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