Born in Haifa during the Mandate era , Ben-Yisrael joined the Haganah , and between 1938 and 1940 was a recruiting officer in Jerusalem . During World War II he volunteered for the Jewish Brigade , and following the war he helped to smuggle holocaust survivors into Palestine . He then fought in the 1948 Arab-Israeli War and was wounded in the Battle for Jerusalem . He was demobilised from the IDF as a major
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Gideon Ben-Yisrael