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    The Palmach (Hebrew: פלמ"ח‎, acronym for פלוגות מחץ‎, Plugot Maḥatz, "Strike Companies") was the elite combined strike forces and sayeret unit of the...
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    The Palmach Museum (Hebrew: מוזיאון הפלמ"ח) is a museum located in Ramat Aviv, Israel dedicated to the Palmach, the strike-force of the pre-state underground...
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    HaPalmach (Hebrew: הפלמ"ח) is a street in the Katamon neighborhood of Jerusalem. The street is named for the Palmach paramilitary forces (acronym for plugot...
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  • the Haganah aerial service Palmach, the elite fighting force of Haganah Palavir, the Palmach aerial service Palyam, the Palmach naval service Irgun, a Zionist...
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    Yitzhak Rabin (category Palmach members)
    (often translated as lieutenant general). As a teenager he joined the Palmach, the commando force of the Yishuv. He eventually rose through its ranks...
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    Yitzhak Sadeh (category Palmach members)
    Landoberg, August 10, 1890 – August 20, 1952), was the commander of the Palmach and one of the founders of the Israel Defense Forces at the time of the...
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    primarily by the Irgun and Lehi, who were supported by the Haganah and Palmach. The massacre was carried out despite the village having agreed to a non-aggression...
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    of the Palmach, the elite strike force of the Haganah. His father, Zvi Spector, was the commander of Operation Boatswain, a failed 1941 Palmach mission...
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  • Operation Yiftach (Hebrew: מבצע יפתח, Mivtza Yiftah) was a Palmach offensive carried out between 28 April and 23 May 1948. The objectives were to capture...
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    Avraham Adan (category Palmach members)
    major-general and author. Prior to Israel's independence, he served with the Palmach, an elite formation within the Haganah paramilitary force of the Yishuv...
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    and currently[citation needed] stars in the Israeli television series Palmach on Teen Nick via yes. She uses her middle name Shelbia as her professional...
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    (Hebrew: יצחק חופי‎; 25 January 1927 – 15 September 2014) was a member of the Palmach, IDF General, chief of the Northern Command (Israel), and director of the...
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    Israeli Navy and he became the captain of the Israeli Naval vessel Palmach. The Palmach was credited with many operations in the Sinai and in Lebanon. [citation...
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    It included two Palmach battalions (the 1st and 7th), and later also the 2nd, which was transferred from the Negev Brigade. The Palmach memorial website...
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    British ban on the carrying of weapons. On 17 March six members of the Palmach accompanying a convoy were killed in a clash with the British Army. At...
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    Two days later, the Palmach again bombed the police coast guard station at Givat Olga, killing a British soldier, while a Palmach attack on the Royal...
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    practical skill set that was acquired during the training period of the Palmach and Haganah fighters. The main focus was to upgrade the physical endurance...
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    Isaac Shoshan (category Palmach members)
    "Mista'arev". Starting as an undercover operative in the "Arab Section" of the Palmach in Mandatory Palestine, he later became one of the founding members of...
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    was the home of Yigal Allon, commander of the "Syrian Department" of the Palmach, and later a senior minister in the government of Israel. Ginosar1937....
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    In February 1948, Yigal Allon, commander of the Palmach in the north, ordered an attack on Sa'sa'. The order was given to Moshe Kelman, the deputy commander...
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    18 February, killing 7 residents and injuring 45. On 28 February, the Palmach organised a bombing attack against a garage in Haifa, killing 30 people...
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    Harel Brigade (category Palmach)
    role in the 1948 Palestine war. It is one of the former divisions of the Palmach, the elite fighting force of the Haganah, that remains in the Israeli Defense...
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    force of about 100 men. They retreated to the Jewish settlement of Motza. Palmach troops recaptured the village on the night of 8–9 April; most of the houses...
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  • Operation Boatswain (category Palmach)
    Boatswain was the first of the operational missions carried out by the Palmach as part of the cooperation between the Jewish Yishuv in Mandatory Palestine...
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    documentary proof of Jewish Agency approval of sabotage operations by the Palmach and of an alliance between the Haganah and the more violent Lehi (Stern...
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    reestablished calm. In reprisals, some soldiers from the strike force, Palmach and the Carmeli brigade, attacked the villages of Balad ash-Sheikh and...
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    total force numbered around 6,000 soldiers. The operation was named after Palmach officer Daniel "Dani" Mass, who had fallen on January 16, 1948, while commanding...
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    Amos Horev (category Palmach members)
    Israeli military official and expert. He served as a commander in the Palmach the elite force of the Haganah before the founding of the state, and was...
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    wrote a book about the undercover unit he helped to create inside the Palmach, which was posthumously published by the Israeli Ministry of Defense and...
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    Shimon Avidan (category Palmach members)
    – September 11, 1994), born Siegbert Koch (Hebrew: זיגברט קוך), was a Palmach soldier and IDF military leader. He was the commander of the Givati Brigade...
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