Civilians, journalists, humanitarians and support personnel who aided the 1948 effort without serving in a combat branch.
Herman Milton “Hank” Greenspun was the Las Vegas newspaper publisher who, in 1948, became a central figure in the clandestine effort to arm the newborn State of Israel. Working with the underground arms-smuggling network, he helped acquire and ship aircraft engines, machine guns and other war materiel out of the United States in defiance of […]
Ruth Gruber (1911–2016) was a trailblazing American journalist, author and humanitarian who gave the pre-state struggle a voice and an image. Though never a military volunteer, she was a key American figure in the establishment of Israel — as a reporter and photographer she chronicled events that influenced and hastened independence. In 1944 she escorted
