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	Jewish Legion - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Jewish Legion was the name for five battalions of Jewish volunteers established as the British Army's 38th through 42nd (Service) Battalions of the Royal Fusiliers.
		The Legion's mission was to cross the Jordan River.
		The soldiers of Zion: The Jewish Legion, 1915-1921.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jewish_Legion (937 words)

	Ze'ev (Vladimir) Jabotinsky - Long Version
		Symbolic of Jabotinsky's appreciation of the heroic role of the Jewish Legion in laying the groundwork of the future Jewish State and Jewish Army was his farewell address to the Jewish legionnaires when they were disbanded by the British: "...The time will come when Jewish children will learn the truth together with their alphabets.
		He demanded that, alongside the acceptance of a Jewish Army for all the Allied fronts, the Jewish People be given a seat at the future Peace Conference, and the establishment of the Jewish State be recognized as one of the war aims of the Allies.
		Ze'ev Jabotinsky, the founder of the Jewish Legion, the defender of Jerusalem and the prisoner of Acco, hero of the eternal struggle for the Kingdom of Israel and Knight of Hadar in his life and actions.
	www.nacs.net /~dlauer/dave/jewish/jabobig.html (6443 words)

	Jewish Legion: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		This article is about the jewish legion, also known as the zion mule corps of the british army that fought in world war i against the ottoman empire....
		The alexandroni brigade (the 3rd brigade) was an israeli brigade that fought in the 1948 arab-israeli war....
		The palmach (in hebrew - " " ") was the regular fighting force of the haganah (the underground army of jewish settlers during the british...
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/J/Je/Jewish_Legion.htm (1483 words)

	Morris Chaim Blake ... of the Jewish Legion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		HISTORICAL NOTE: The Jewish Legion was a military formation of Jewish volunteers in World War I, who fought in the British Army for the liberation of Eretz Yisrael from Turkish rule.
		British military command opposed the participation of Jewish volunteers on the Palestinian front and suggested the volunteers serve as a detachment for mule transport on some other sector of the Turkish front.
		The Jewish Legion was demobilized by the anti-Zionist British Military Administration, 1919-1920.
	members.aol.com /hagdud/hagdud.html (899 words)

	JABOTINSKY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		In the Jewish camp there were various trends in regard to the position the Jewish minority in the st ruggle for national autonomy.
		Symbolic of Jabotinsky's appreciation of the heroic role of the Jewish Legion in laying the groundwork of the future Jewish State and Jewish Army was his farewell address to the Jewish legionnaires when they were disbanded by the British: "...The time wi ll come when Jewish children will learn the truth together with their alphabets.
		He demanded that, alongside the acc eptance of a Jewish Army for all the Allied fronts, the Jewish People be given a seat at the future Peace Conference, and the establishment of the Jewish State be recognized as one of the war aims of the Allies.
	jdo.org /zevj.htm (6981 words)

	Jewish \| TutorGig.co.uk Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Jewish History, Jewish Religion The Weight Of Three Thousand Years is a critical examination of Judaism...
		Jewish temple Jewish temple or The Jewish Temple, may refer to the original two ancient Jew ish Temple...
		Jewish Autonomism was a non Zionist political movement that shaped up in Eastern Europe in the late 19th...
	www.tutorgig.co.uk /encyclopedia/sencyclo.jsp?keywords=Jewish (496 words)

	FORWARD : News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The Jewish Agency is funding Baruiden's trip to the former Soviet Union and volunteers are constructing kennels and model streets in the West Bank settlements of Gilo and Kedumim to train the dogs.
		Overall, however, Ben-Israel said the Jewish Legion is very supportive of Kalbi's work and donated $1,000 of their limited funds to the group.
		On a Jewish Legion recruitment video, volunteers are shown patrolling settlements in bulletproof vests, and unnamed Israeli military officers sing the praises of the Legion and their dogs.
	www.forward.com /issues/2002/02.08.02/news7.html (1166 words)

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		Jabotinsky greatly influenced a large section of the Jewish people and as head of the Betar movement was the undisputed source of inspiration to many thousands of Jewish youth, particularly in Eastern Europe.
		While in Alexandria, where thousands of Jewish deportees from Erez Israel were concentrated, Jabotinsky and Joseph Trumpeldor advanced the idea of raising a Jewish Legion to join the Allies in liberating Erez Israel from Ottoman rule.
		After the war, Jabotinsky insisted on the need to maintain the Jewish Legion in Palestine as a guarantee against the outbreak of Arab hostility, which was encouraged by the anti-Zionist policy of the British military administration.
	www.funtour.co.il /Jabotinsky.html (733 words)

	Israpundit: Zion Mule Corps - a moment in history
		The Zion Mule Corps, the Jewish Legion, and their Irish Commander, Colonel John Henry Patterson By Yanky Fachler, Jewish War Veterans John Henry Patterson, the commander of the Jewish Legion, was an Irish Protestant who drew spiritual inspiration from Old...
		The officer appointed by the British to command the Jewish muleteers was John Henry Patterson.
		Jewish War Veterans of the USA is an organization run by WWII activists on par with American Jewish Committee.
	www.israpundit.com /archives/2005/09/zion_mule_corps.php (1114 words)

	Jewish Legion Gdud Haivri Hagdud Havri - definition - Zionism and Israel -Encyclopedia / Dictionary/Lexicon of ...
		The Zion Mule Corps was sent to Gallipoli because British were reluctant to use Jewish forces in Palestine.
		The Jewish Legion consisted of Jewish volunteers from around the world, including the US, but was in large part made of men like Jabotinsky and Trumpeldor, who fled Turkish Palestine during WW I. Jabotinsky was decorated for his role in fording the Jordan River.
		Soldiers of the Jewish Legion at the West Wall of the Temple in Jerusalem in December 1917, after liberating Jerusalem as part of the forces commanded by General Allenby
	www.zionism-israel.com /dic/Jewish_Legion.htm (708 words)

	Jewish Brigade Group
		The establishment of the Brigade was the final outcome of prolonged efforts by the yishuv and the Zionist Movement to achieve recognized participation and representation of the Jewish people in the war against Nazi Germany.
		After a period of training in Egypt, the Jewish Brigade Group — approximately 5,000 soldiers — took part in the final battles of the war on the Italian front under the command of the Canadian-born Jew, Brigadier Ernest Benjamin.
		Skills gained in the Jewish Brigade and in the British army in general was experience that would be put to use again during Israel's War of Independence.
	www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/History/brigade.html (490 words)

	Jewish History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Ignatyev determined that they were caused by "Jewish exploitation." This led to the publishing of the May laws.
		The goal of the Jewish Theological Seminary was the training of rabbis and teachers in traditional Judaism.
		He joined the Jewish legion, rose in the ranks of the Zionist Labor Party, and created the Histadrut or Labor Confederation.
	www.jewishhistory.org.il /1880.htm (4169 words)

	Add a Magazine Article from the JWV (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		In April 1915, the Assyrian Jewish Refugee Mule Corps (soon known as the Zion Mule Corps), sailed from Egypt to Gallipoli with several hundred men and 750 mules.
		The Jewish Chronicle reported: â...thousands of Jews and Jewesses marched merrily together with the âJudeansâ from the Tower whence the march began after they had been addressed by Colonel Patterson, who rode at the head of the picturesque Jewish troops.â
		By 1921, all that remained of the Jewish Legion was a mixed Arab-Jewish militia headed by former Legionnaire Eliezer Margolin.
	www.jwv.org /communication/detailart.cfm?ID=285 (997 words)

	David Tidhar (1897-1970)
		Born in Jaffa, Tidhar volunteered for the Jewish Legion and helped defend the Jews of Jaffa during the Arab riots in 1921.
		Through his experience in the Jewish Legion, the Haganah and the Palestine Police, David Tidhar gained particular knowledge of Arab affairs and of the Mandatory government.
		In addition to serving in senior Jewish positions, he was always willing to share his knowledge with yishuv institutions, particularly the Jewish Agency.
	www.jafi.org.il /education/100/people/bios/tidhar.html (165 words)

	Ze'ev Jabotnisky 1880-1940
		This document is a characteristic expression of Jabotinsky's conviction and indomitable faith in the inevitable triumph of the Jewish national cause.
		That Jabotinsky belongs to the entire Jewish people regardless of the opposition to the ideology he espoused was stressed by the late Zalman Shazar, president of Israel, when he wrote that the exaltation and admiration demonstrated for Jabotinsky's "talen t and aesthetic was based not on party politics/"
		The reawakening of Soviet Jewry to the Jewish identity and heritage and their yearning to return to their ancestral homeland can be traced back to the fact that for a hundred years Russia has been the cradle o Zionism.
	www.ou.org /chagim/yomhaatzmauth/jabo.html (7162 words)

	Canadian Jewish News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The Legion will act as a self-defence force for "Jews who fight back" against Arab attacks in Judea and Samaria, while the fund will go to the families of those volunteers who may, as a result, be arrested by Israeli authorities, said Meir Halevi, chair of the Jewish Defence League (JDL) in Canada.
		The proposed fund would be raised to assist the families of those legion members, and others acting in self-defence, who may be arrested for their self- defence actions.
		Halevi said attacks on Jewish travellers are a daily occurrence, though largely unreported in the press.
	www.cjnews.com /pastissues/01/jan11-01/front1.asp (722 words)

	Arutz Sheva - Israel National News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The town council has decided to expel the volunteer guards of an organization called the Jewish Legion, volunteers who have been living in the community for a number of years, patrolling the borders of the township with trained dogs.
		Yekutiel Ben-Yaakov, founder of the Jewish Legion and Tapuach resident told INN They have been operating out of Kfar Tapuach for the past three years, and have contributed more than 18,000 hours of guard duty in Tapuach.
		The Jewish Legion has already signed a majority of the residents of Kfar Tapuach on a petition calling to freeze any decisions until after the disengagement and calling for the right to respond to what Ben-Yaakov and his supporters are calling “the fraudulent accusations that have been made against the group.”
	www.israelnationalnews.com /news.php3?id=87624 (253 words)

	CANADIAN VOLUNTEERS FOR YESHA
		The Jewish Legion will provide an ideal atmosphere that will allow Olim to get both physically fit and mentally ready for army service and is an ideal place to ask soldiers based in Tapuach and Jewish Legion volunteers, who have gone through the IDF, what to expect, do and say when their conscription day occurs.
		The Jewish Legion, also understands the government paperwork and bureaucracy that Olim must go through, and will help volunteers make this go as quick and painless as possible.
		The Jewish Legion is also working to make it possible for Jewish Legion volunteers to do their army through the Nachal framework, and or help volunteers get into the unit that they want.
	www.geocities.com /cvfyesha/aliyah.htm (387 words)

	Jewish Role in WW I
		Before the war ended five battalions of Jewish volunteers of several nationalities were raised for the British Army, the 38th through 42nd (Service) Battalions of the Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment).
		Together they were known as the "Jewish Legion." The 39th Battalion was made up almost entirely of Jews who were resident in the United States and Canada.
		In Palestine in 1918, there existed a pool of 18,000-20,000 Jewish males who were eager to join a Palestine Jewish Legion, and so petitioned the British authorities which at that time occupied the areas of Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Jaffa, and the settlements in Judea.
	www.palestinefacts.org /pf_ww1_jewish_role.php (1039 words)

	Liberation Graphics: Antonym/Synonym
		Depicted in this poster are two soldiers of the Jewish Legion, the volunteer military force which was organized in Palestine by Zionists during the British Mandate (1918-1948) and which later became the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF).
		The Jewish Legion gave good service to the Allies during WWII and it emerged from that experience a much more mature and formidable force.
		The body of soldiers that evolved from the Jewish Legion now constitutes the Middle East’s largest air force (800 combat aircraft), its second largest armor force (3,930 tanks), a modern navy (fielding three submarines, forty-seven patrol and coastal vessels, including three Corvettes and ten craft armed with Gabriel or Harpoon missiles).
	www.liberationgraphics.com /ppp/helpthembuild.html (762 words)

	The Jewish Legion World War One-family Photos-Jewish East End of London photo gallery
		My Grandfather was not in the Jewish Legion, but served on the Western Front in the Royal Marine Artillery.
		The Jewish Legion were involved in fighting the Turks (Ottoman Empire) in Palestine during World War One.
		Jewish Legionnaires with Lt Col John Patterson in the middle.
	www.olamgadol.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk /jewishlegion.html (1805 words)

	Jewish Legion - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Jewish Legion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		In World War I, a wholly Jewish unit of the British Army.
		It served with distinction in Gallipoli 1915, carrying rations and ammunition to the forward troops, and after the evacuation of the peninsula the corps was merged with the Jewish regiment 1917.
		This information should not be considered complete, up to date, and is not intended to be used in place of a visit, consultation, or advice of a legal, medical, or any other professional.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /Jewish+Legion (129 words)

	The Jewish Legion
		Military formation of Jewish volunteers in World War I, who fought in the British Army for the liberation of Eretz Yisrael from Turkish rule.
		In June 1918, The 38th Battalion of the Royal Fusiliers was sent to Palestine, where the volunteers fought for the liberation of Eretz Yisrael from Turkish rule.
		The Jewish Legion was demobilized by the anti-Zionist British Military Administration (1918 -1920).
	www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/History/legion.html (259 words)

	JewishGates.Com - The Definitive Source for Talmudic Learning (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		It was an uphill struggle, but in 1917, under a flag bearing the blue Magen David, and with uniforms bearing the insignia of the menorah, the Jewish Legion was created.
		Jabotinsky's uncompromising positions on establishing a Jewish state, the nature of Zionism, and the legitimacy of terrorist tactics against the British so angered some of the leaders of the Yishuv that they never forgave him.
		It is a sign of the deep levels of disagreement among the different Jewish movements that Jabotinsky's final request was not fulfilled for twenty-five years.
	www.jewishgates.com /file.asp?File_ID=313 (574 words)

	WorldNetDaily: Israel enlists pigs against terrorists (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		A special Israeli security group, known as "Gdud Ivri," or Jewish Legion, is enlisting pigs in its life-and-death fight with Islamic terror, reports Joseph Farah’s G2 Bulletin.
		The Jewish Legion, named after the World War I, all-Jewish regiments of the British army, supports the Israeli military, police and isolated communities by providing special K-9 patrols and mounted riders.
		Yakutiel Ben-Yaacov, the leader of the Jewish Legion, learned about the British army's use of pigs during the 1936-1939 Arab revolt in Palestine.
	www.worldnetdaily.com /news/printer-friendly.asp?ARTICLE_ID=37890 (395 words)

	Commentary Magazine - The Story of the Jewish Legion, and An Answer to Ernest Bevin, by Vladimir Jabotinsky; To Whom ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The Story of the Jewish Legion, and An Answer to Ernest Bevin, by Vladimir Jabotinsky; To Whom Palestine?, by Frank Gervasi; The Zionist Movement, by Israel Cohen; The Jews and Palestine, by S. Levenberg
		WHEN during 936-39 Arab brigands were attacking Jewish settlements in Palestine, the Jewish population refused to reply in kind.
		...In a single page the various Jewish parties are de- scribed and the conclusion drawn that "despite these internal differences of right and left, of botrrgeois and worker, which are inevitable in any modern community, all are agreed upon the essentials of Jewish national life...
	www.commentarymagazine.com /Summaries/V2I5P101-1.htm (1624 words)

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