Reports from northern Palestine tonight said that the Haganah had blown up bridge linking Syria to Palestine, following new attacks on Jewish settlements in upper Galilee. Arab snipers renewed ...
Exactly 80 years ago, on Jan. 27, 1945, the Soviet Army liberated the remaining 7,000 prisoners at Auschwitz-Birkenau. The largest of the Nazi death camps, Auschwitz saw the murder of 1.1 million ...
He and his close friend, Elihu Bergman, managed to contact a Haganah operative in the US. Eventually, Syd, Eli and a third Seattleite, Bailey Neider, were recruited to serve as crewmen on a de ...
Israel was on the brink of war and Yehudit served in the Haganah as a medic. She would have liked to have become a nurse but that was impossible in her circumstances.
In 1947, while still a teenager, she moved to what was then the British Mandate of Palestine, where she trained as a sniper in the Haganah, a forerunner of the Israel Defense Forces. She ...
After being betrayed by her husband, German commander Gustav Schiller, and left to die in a concentration camp, the Jewish Judith is smuggled into Palestine by the Haganah, where she plans to ...
Israel was recognised by the UN the following year. A Haganah (Jewish Underground) fighter just before the start of the Israeli war of independence in 1948 By the time the fighting ended with an ...