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...
The Palmach (Hebrew: פלמ"ח, acronym for פלוגות מחץ, Plugot Maḥatz, "Strike Companies") was the elite combined strike forces and sayeret unit of the...
Katamon street (separating it from Talbiya). These streets connect to Emek Refaim and HaPalmachStreet, respectively. During the British Mandate era, the...
member of the Palmach that remained in the IDF. Like many Palmach leaders, Rabin was politically aligned with the left wing pro-Soviet Ahdut HaAvoda party...
Jeep and set up a makeshift roadblock at Ben Zion Guini Square, off HapalmachStreet, and waited in the jeep. When Bernadotte's motorcade approached, Cohen...
had become a charismatic and colorful figure whose nickname in the Palmach was HaZaken (The Old Man). He is buried at Kibbutz Givat Brenner. When World...
troops of the Carmeli Brigade and the Palmach unit captured several other villages near Mishmar HaEmek and nearby Ein HaShofet, and destroyed them all. During...
(Hebrew: ארגון; full title: Hebrew: הארגון הצבאי הלאומי בארץ ישראל Hā-ʾIrgun Ha-Tzvaʾī Ha-Leūmī b-Ērētz Yiśrāʾel, lit. "The National Military Organization...
Avidan is also known for his activities in the Palmach in World War II. He led the "German Unit" of the Palmach, which was responsible for conducting guerrilla...
division of the Palmach, immediately after Operation Nachshon. It was composed of three battalions, Sha'ar Hagai - known as the First Battalion; Ha-portzim -...
"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...
throughout Palestine. Palmach lost 14 dead and 5 wounded in the operation. The British responded with raids on Kfar Giladi, Matsuba, and Bet HaArava, encountering...
kibbutz from Arab attacks. Simhoni became one of the first volunteers in the Palmach shortly after its establishment on May 15, 1941. Within two short months...
Nearby landmarks are Tel Aviv University, the Eretz Israel Museum, the Palmach Museum, and Beth Hatefutsoth. Ramat Aviv Bet, usually referred to as Neve...
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...
acting as an adolescent, but left school in the 1940s to enlist in the Palmach. During the 1948 Arab-Israeli War he escorted convoys to the besieged city...
(1920s-1940s), Zionist paramilitaries like the Irgun, Lehi, Haganah and Palmach engaged in violent campaigns against British authorities, Palestinian Arabs...
Mordechai. He joined the Palmach in 1942, becoming a member of the so-called 'German Squad'. He later notionally left the Palmach, volunteering for the SOE's...
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...
Yitzhak Sadeh (1890–1952), one of the founders of Gdud HaAvoda, later-on commander of the Palmach Menachem Ussishkin (1863–1941), Zionist leader Many of...
Ziona, Rehovot, and Ramat HaSharon. He joined the Haganah at age 15. In 1940 he moved to Ein Harod and joined the Palmach the following year. He became...
about military history. Gur was born in Jerusalem and later joined the Palmach Haganah (the underground armed group of the Jews in the British Mandate...
Forces military history. The Palmach Museum near Tel Aviv University offers a multimedia experience of the history of the Palmach. Right next to Charles Clore...
before the founding of the state of Israel, Givat HaShlosha was one of the kibbutzim where the Palmach trained, and it had weapons caches for the Haganah...
roundly defeated at Mishmar HaEmek. Their Druze allies left them through defection. As part of Plan Dalet, the Haganah, Palmach and Irgun captured the urban...
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