Jewish Legion - Members of Jewish Legion

Members of Jewish Legion

  • Gershon Agron, Mayor of Jerusalem.
  • Nathan Ausubel, Jewish-American author.
  • Yitzhak Ben-Zvi, second Israeli President.
  • Yaakov Dori, Haganah leader; first Chief of Staff of the Israel Defense Forces.
  • Sir Jacob Epstein, British sculptor.
  • Levi Eshkol, third Israeli Prime Minister.
  • Louis Fischer, Jewish-American journalist and author.
  • Eliyahu Golomb, founding member of the Haganah.
  • David Grün, later Ben-Gurion, first Israeli Prime Minister.
  • Nachum Gutman, Israeli Painter
  • Dov Hoz, Zionist activist, Haganah fighter.
  • Bernard Joseph, later Dov Yosef, Governor of Jewish Jerusalem during the 1948 siege; longtime Labor MK.
  • Berl Katznelson, Zionist philosopher and activist.
  • Reuven Katzenelson-Sgt under Joseph Trumpeldor at Battle of Gallipoli and father of Shmuel Tamir
  • Bert "Yank" Levy Internationalist in Spain and Military instructor for the British Home Guard.
  • Gideon Mer, physician, veteran of Zion Mule Corps, Jewish Legion and British Army in World War II. Served as medic in Israeli War of Independence; later worked in the Israeli Ministry of Health. {Note: he is the unnamed Officer during World War II in charge of anti-Malaria program mentioned in Martin Sugarman's article on the Zion Mule Corps}.
  • John Henry Patterson (author)-Commander of Zion Mule Corps and 38th Battalion Royal Fusiliers {Jewish legion}
  • James Armand de Rothschild, D.C.M. Major, 39th Royal Fusiliers Battalion; Captain Royal Canadian Dragoons; a member of the Rothschild family.
  • Edward Sperling - humorist and later director-general of the Ministry of Trade and Industry under the British Mandate of Palestine
  • Edwin Herbert Samuel, 2nd Viscount Samuel; CMG son of Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel.
  • Eliezer Sukenik, Israeli archaeologist; father of Yigael Yadin

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