By Maurice Ostroff Immediately after approval of the November 1947 UN partition resolution[1], Arab militias initiated a siege of Jerusalem, preventing
Page updated 6/5/2023 Sol (Shalom) Baskin, a native Chicagoan, served almost three years in the U.S. Army as a rifleman with the 34
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Contents: Historical Summary Haganah and IZL Personal Stories ’47-’49 Non Jewish volunteers The 1948 War of Independence in a nutshell By