Working with the Jewish underground paramilitary, the Haganah, Schwimmer led a team of World War II veterans to break an American embargo and smuggle 125 military planes and more than 50,000 ...

He was born in the Netherlands to a religious Jewish family, abandoned religion ... Jerusalem's Shaare Zedek Hospital by activists of the pre-state Haganah militia. In Zvi Landsman's film ...

In May 1948, the village was attacked by Jewish Haganah forces as part of a regional “cleansing” operation in the foothills of Mount Carmel, with the goal of expelling the Arab residents.