The largest contingents of Machal volunteers hailed from the United States, South Africa, the United Kingdom, Canada and France. Almost all, including 168 gentiles, had fought for their home countries ...

(JNS) Joe Woolf, a South African Jewish volunteer in the foreign-fighters unit Machal who conducted research that helped preserve that group’s legacy for 75 years after Israel’s War of Independence, ...

Nearly 70 years after volunteers from five continents left homes and jobs to fight for the newly proclaimed State of Israel, their deeds will be honored and memorialized on Dec. 17 at a historic site ...

A salute to Machal In Israel’s fateful War of Independence, thousands of volunteers came from 59 countries to fight with their brethren and played a pivotal role in winning the war.

Bill DeBlasio — Tail Gunner, B-17, 8th Air Force, Oct. 10, 1943: “Twelve of (our) Group’s (13) aircraft were shot down… leaving the Royal Flush all by herself… Flak had knocked out one of the left ...