USA
Ralph Lowenstein
Read the AVILC tribute: A Tribute to Ralph Lowenstein → Works A Time of War: A Novel of the First Israeli War (also published as Bring My Sons from Far) — his novel of the 1948 war. Founder of the American Veterans of Israel archives and the Aliyah Bet & Machal Museum at the University
Harold Livingston
Harold Livingston (1925–2022) was a novelist, Hollywood screenwriter, and World War II U.S. Army Air Forces veteran who flew for the Israel Air Transport Command during the 1948 War of Independence, helping smuggle aircraft and munitions to the embattled Jewish state. After the war he returned to California and launched a writing career: his 1954