The 1st Battalion of Infantry of what…
January 1943 CE
In addition to a five per cent contingent of Arabs, the Jewish volunteers come from many countries—Falashas from Ethiopia, Yemenis from the Hadramaut, Adenis, and young Zionist idealists from several western democracies.
Many are European-born young men from Poland, Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia, and Russia, who had escaped from the Nazis.
Others are Sabras, Palestine-born, whose parents had emigrated from eastern Europe.
Half of the NCOs are British, because the blocking tactics of the Foreign Office and Cairo GHQ had delayed the training of Palestinian Jewish NCOs and officers.
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