(JNS) Joe Woolf, a South African Jewish volunteer in the foreign-fighters unit Machal who conducted research that helped preserve that group’s legacy for 75 years after Israel’s War of Independence, ...
Nearly 70 years after volunteers from five continents left homes and jobs to fight for the newly proclaimed State of Israel, their deeds will be honored and memorialized on Dec. 17 at a historic site ...
The largest contingents of Machal volunteers hailed from the United States, South Africa, the United Kingdom, Canada and France. Almost all, including 168 gentiles, had fought for their home countries ...
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Not since the days before the War of Independence – when David Ben-Gurion and Menachem Begin scoured the globe seeking members of the Diaspora to fight in the War of Independence – has an organization ...
Machal: The 1948 Volunteers Rachel Fletcher talks to four people now living in Britain who signed up to fight for Israel The war of Independence brought more than 3,500 volunteers to Israel to fight.
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