29th May 2023 – At a very moving and emotional ceremony today near Ashdod – the IAF and its Legacy Association marked exactly
Machal, short for “Mitnadvei Hutz LaAretz” meaning “volunteers from outside the land,” refers to the non-Israeli volunteers who fought in the 1948 Arab-Israeli
This page with chronologically scanned copies of the AVI newsletters published between 2000 and 2015 has been added with thanks to Machal veteran
Watch below, a ZOOM recording of the film SA 800 with a panel discussion of its producers and others. Click here to download
BIBLIOGRAPHY UPDATED FROM THE ONE SHOWN ON THE MACHAL BOOKLET Updated 14/10/21 Alon, Yigal. Shield of David. U.S.A.: Random House, 1970Aloni, Shlomo. 101
by Zacharia Kafka During the Finnish-Russian War of 1939-40, Jews fought alongside the Finns. When Viipuri was annexed to the Soviet Union,
General HQ and Government Departments 8 Medical Corps 125 Air Force 212 Navy 26 Palmach 34 Carmeli
The pre-fab hospital at Kibbutz Ruchama had already acquired a history. Early in September, the Egyptians had strafed it while Ivan Barnett and
Hans Katzenstein, the son of Simon and Henrietta, was born in Berlin in Germany on 27th September 1916, his parent’s first-born child. He
The son of Lina and Chaim, Freddy was born on September 19th 1929 in Kassel, Germany. He spent his youth in the hells
Algeria • Argentina • Australia • Austria • Belgium • Belgian Congo • Brazil • Bulgaria • Burma • Canada • Chile •
Test pageThe word MACHAL is an acronym for the Hebrew, Mitnadvei Chutz L’Aretz, meaning “Volunteers from Overseas.” Most of the overseas volunteers
From the perspective of Jewish history, there can be no doubt that the Declaration of the State of Israel and the War of
A Personal Essay: Why the Experiences of North American Volunteers are Largely Unknownby Ralph Lowenstein Over the years, veterans of Aliyah Bet and
By Joe Woolf It is not generally known throughout the world that in World War I and World War II the soldiers who
MACHAL ORGANIZATION WEBSITES American Veterans of Israel Legacy Corporation (AVILC)U.S. & Canadian Volunteers In Aliyah Bet and the War of Independence (links to
Click here to see the Machal Booklet in English READERS PLEASE NOTE. Due to ongoing research, the statistics relating to the countries from
By Maurice Ostroff Immediately after approval of the November 1947 UN partition resolution[1], Arab militias initiated a siege of Jerusalem, preventing
By Maurice Ostroff Edited by Zipporah Porath and Smoky Simon (Click here for maps) On November 29, 1947, the
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