בידספיריט | DAVID BEN GURION (TLS) ON

DAVID BEN GURION (TLS) ON OFFICIAL LETTERHEAD REGARDING THE PALMACH, 1955 - David Ben Gurion, while Prime Minister and Defense secretary in a letter to Yigal Alon, stating: DEAR FRIEND, YOU WROTE TO ME CORRECTLY THAT THE PALMACH WAS THE MOST CHOSEN AND DEVOTED UNIT OF THE HAGANAH. ALL THIS IS CORRECT UNTIL SEVERAL MONTHS BEFORE THE DECLARATION OF STATE WHEN IT WAS DECIDED THAT THE VAAD LEUMI AND THE JEWISH AGENCY TOP ENGAGE IN MASSIVE RECRUITING AND THEN A NUMBER OF UNITS WERE CREATED WHO DEDICATED ALL THEIR TIME TO TRAINING AND WAR MANEUVERS AND THERE WAS NO DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THESE UNITS AND THOSE OF THE PALMACH. TO YOUR CREDIT AS ONE OF THE COMMANDERS OF THE PALMACH I MUST SAY YOU DID NOT DEVIATE FROM DISCIPLINE OR BREAK RANK. WITH FRIENDSHIP AND BLESSING DAVID BEN GURION PRIME MINISTER AND MINISTER OF DEFENSE.