Jewish Legion
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Jewish Legion A number of military units formed in 1917 to help the British liberate
Palestine from the rule of the
Ottoman Empire. One battalion was recruited in England, another in the USA, and others in Egypt and Palestine, joining
Allenby as he advanced into Ottoman Turkey. After the war, many of its members such as
Ben-Gurion and
Eshkol proceeded to form the
Haganah.
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