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...born in Jerusalem in 1922 to Russian parents (his father had spent 15 years in the U.S. before moving to Palestine during World War I to become a soldier in the Jewish Legion). At the age of 19, Yitzhak joined the elite, secret branch of the Jewish underground, the Palmach. Soon after, he met a high school girl named Leah Schlossberg, whom he married...
Rabin wanted to become an irrigation engineer and won a scholarship to the University of California in 1940, but he decided instead to remain in the Palmach. During World War II he and other members of the organization fought for the British in Vichy-held Syria and Lebanon. In later years he has loved to tell about the time when, as a green recruit, he was ordered to cut a telephone line in Syria; only when the pole began to wobble did he realize that he had cut the guy wire instead of the vital telephone link...
Siege of Jerusalem. During Israel's war of independence, he was a deputy commander of the Palmach under Yigal Allon (now Israel's Deputy Premier and Foreign Minister). Some of Rabin's exploits-including his command of the brigade that lifted the 1948 siege of Jerusalem, and countless raids that he led to liberate detainees who had immigrated illegally-were later attributed by Author Leon Uris to the fictional heroes of his novel Exodus...
...GENERAL DAVID ELAZAR: Nobody in Israel has been more contemptuous of the Arabs' military capacity than this longtime protege of Israel's respected former Chief of Staff Haim Bar-Lev. Born in Yugoslavia, like Bar-Lev, Elazar, now 48, went to Israel in 1940, soon joined the Palmach, the strike force of the underground Zionist army, and fought in the 1948 war of independence. His military career advanced rapidly as he followed Bar-Lev from command to command until he succeeded him as Chief of Staff in 1971. Last April Elazar predicted, "I don't believe...
Eight gun clubs in the New York metropolitan area are linked in an organization known as Palmach, named after an elite corps in Israel's army in the 1948 war of independence; half of Palmach's 400 members are Jewish, and most, for the record, insist that the target shooting is "strictly for sport." But one, an Auschwitz survivor, has his own reason. "Jews have to learn to shoot a gun," says Joseph Mittelman. "We didn't know the last time, and look where it got us." Even the organization's president, Sy Alper, admits that...