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Source: https://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/Pre-Mossad-IDF-Englands-Jewish-Brigade-fought-Nazis-got-Jews-toward-Israel-596363

England's Jewish Brigade Fought Nazis, Got Jews toward Israel

(Jerusalem Post) Yonah Jeremy Bob - During World War II, a unit of 5,500 Jews from Mandatory Palestine known as the Jewish Brigade fought the Nazis as part of the British Army. The brigade saw action in Italy against the Germans; 83 men were killed during the war and 200 were wounded. Many of the IDF's first officers came from the brigade including two chiefs-of-staff. Jewish Brigade soldiers were often the first outsiders to meet Holocaust survivors liberated from concentration camps. The brigade helped 15,000-22,000 Jews reach Israel from displaced persons camps in Europe.

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