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    Palmach (redirect from Palmah)
    The Palmach (Hebrew: פלמ"ח‎, acronym for פלוגות מחץ‎, Plugot Maḥatz, "Strike Companies") was the elite combined strike forces and sayeret unit of the Haganah...
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    differences in military behavior between the Irgun and the labor Zionist Palmah. In following with policies laid out by Ben-Gurion, the prevalent method...
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    Israeli Humor – The Content: The Content and Structure of the Chizbat of the Palmah. SUNY Press. ISBN 978-0-87395-512-6 Pappe, Ilan (2006), The Ethnic Cleansing...
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    on February 18, killing 7 residents and injuring 45. On 28 February, the Palmah organised a bombing attack against a garage in Haifa, killing 30 people...
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    quoting unnamed source from Book of the Palmah II Morris, 2004, page 224 quoting Yigal Allon from Book of the Palmah II Sarah Honig (July 17, 2009). "Another...
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  • Press. p. 239. ISBN 9780300145243. Israeli desperation was such that two Palmah Arab Platoon scouts, David Mizrahi and 'Ezra Afgin (Horin), were sent to...
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    1948. Osprey Publishing. Oring, Elliott (1981). Israeli Humor: The Content and Structure of the Chizbat of the Palmah. SUNY Press. ISBN 0-87395-512-9...
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    on the refugees fleeing southward, towards “Ein Karim. Two squads of the Palmah (the elite strike force of the Haganah) also arrived on the scene and helped...
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    p. 103, "On the night of 31 December–1 January, the Haganah sent in a Palmah company and several independent platoons. The orders were to 'kill as many...
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    p. 311. Sefer Hapalmah ii (The Book of the Palmah), p. 565; and KMA-PA (Kibbutz Meuhad Archives – Palmah Archive). Quoted in Benny Morris, The Birth...
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    the raiders that he would not be harmed. The Palmah's Third Battalion lost three dead. According to Palmah reports cited by Morris, "the village was completely...
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    on the refugees fleeing southward, towards “Ein Karim. Two squads of the Palmah (the elite strike force of the Haganah) also arrived on the scene and helped...
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    on the refugees fleeing southward, towards “Ein Karim. Two squads of the Palmah (the elite strike force of the Haganah) also arrived on the scene and helped...
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    Yitzhak Rabin, the Palmah's head of operations, opposed the destruction – but he was overruled. On 19–20 February, the Palmah's Fourth Battalion demolished...
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    (1981). Israeli Humor: The Content and Structure of the Chizbat of the Palmah. Albany: State University of New York Press. ISBN 978-0-87395-512-6 Rankin...
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  • Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-68161-8_3. Morris 2004, "a Palmah strike against Husseiniyya on the night of 12-13 March. A number of houses...
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    May 1948, 21:00 hours, IDFA 128\51\\50; Nazzal, p. 36-37, and "Book of Palmah, II, p 304. Cited in Morris p. 223, 289 Morris (2004), p. 223. Morris (2004)...
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    Ben-Gurion and the veterans of the British Armies on one side and former Palmah and Haganah soldiers on the other. In this sphere of influence during the...
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    Yitzhak Rabin, the Palmah’s head of operations, opposed the destruction – but he was overruled. On 19–20 February, the Palmah’s Fourth Battalion demolished...
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    just before the outbreak of the Arab-Israeli war, Tabgha was attacked by Palmah forces, supported by the Alexandroni Brigades and local Hagana units. Its...
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  • lost their lives during the war. Clasps Decoration of State Warriors clasp Palmah clasp Jerusalem Defenders shield WWII Jewish brigade badge The Volunteer...
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    of the first members of the Palmach, and one of its poets. He wrote the Palmah Anthem in 1941. In 1946, he participated in the Night of the Bridges at...
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  • Mandatory Palestine. Gathered by the SHAI, they were the basis of Haganah and Palmah operations during the 1940s. The files answered the need of combat intelligence...
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  • – composer & lyricist: Norman Reid "Out Running Karma" - Alec Benjamin "Palmah House Shuffle" (Palmer House Hotel), 1903 – composer: Libbie Erickson "Pantin'...
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    founders of kibbutz Be'eri. During the 1948 Arab-Israeli War he joined the Palmah. From 1950 to 1952 he was a member of the executive committee of the Histadrut...
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    of the older Zionist settlements. In the 1940s, Ben-Amotz served in the Palmah and joined the Palyam during the 1947–48 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine...
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  • Identity Israeli Humor: The Content and Structure of the Chizbat of the Palmah The First Book of Jewish Jokes: The Collection of L. M. Büschenthal Just...
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  • (1981). Israeli Humor: The Content and Structure of the Chizbat of the Palmah. SUNY Press. ISBN 978-0-87395-512-6 Pedahzur, Ami (2009). The Israeli Secret...
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    World Dictionary of Hebrew Slang. Between 1981 and 1991, she published her Palmah trilogy, a series of three novels based on her own experience in the War...
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    1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 137 Morris, 2004, p. 258. Citing from Palmah and Israel State Archives. Morris, 2004, p, 258 Petersen, 2001, pp. 195-6...
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