Word: haganah
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...family to a moshav, a cooperative farm where, unlike a kibbutz, the members own their land. Moshe liked both farming and books, but he soon found himself learning the arts of war as well. The British sent him to prison in 1939 for belonging to a unit of the Haganah, the Jewish underground...
...against the Vichy French in Syria. During a fire fight, a bullet drove his binoculars into the left side of his face, destroying an eye, which he has kept covered ever since with a Hathaway-style black patch. Despite his wound, Dayan was eventually back in action, leading the Haganah commandos in 1948. Soon after, he took command of the Jerusalem front in Israel's first war with the Arabs. In 1953, he was made Chief of Staff, and he taught the Israeli army his uncompromising philosophy of battle?speed, emphasis on surprise and night assaults?the attributes that...
...clue to the character of Marcus; but the smoke screens dreamed up by Writer-Director Melville Shavelson are nearly impenetrable. As Marcus' unhappy wife, Angie Dickinson stays at home, smiling through her fears and reminiscing in murky flashbacks. As the hero's lively helpmate in the Haganah, Senta Berger manages to make half-baked fiction look like a whole girl. Guest Star John Wayne, perhaps inadvertently, turns his role as a Pentagon overlord into an uncanny impersonation of President Johnson, while Luther Adler, sporting a ludicrous Ben-Gurion hairdo, pretends to be an Israeli leader named Zion...
...Archives. All that seems certain is his arrival in Palestine in 1938. Posing as a veteran of the Spanish Civil War, he was eagerly welcomed into the ranks of Haganah, the Jewish underground army. Beer served in the 1948 war against the Arab states, but was kicked out of the Israeli army in 1950 by Chief of Staff Yigael Yadin, who recalls today that Beer "could do a brilliant job of military planning, but you always had to suspect his motives." Despite a sneering, officious manner, Beer rose swiftly in government circles. In 1954, he dropped out of the Marxist...
...private diaries, was told three days in advance of Israel's intention to start the successful 1956 Sinai campaign. Austrian-born, Baer fought as a battalion commander on the Loyalist side in the Spanish Civil War, went to Palestine in 1938 as a military instructor to Haganah, the powerful Jewish underground organization...