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AMERICAN VETERANS of ISRAEL VOLUNTEERS in ISRAEL’S WAR of INDEPENDENCE UNITED STATES & CANADA VOLUNTEERS 136 East 39Th Street, New York, NY 10016 SUMMER 2005 AMERICAN VETERANS OF ISRAEL VOLUNTEERS IN ISRAEL’S WAR OF INDEPENDENCE UNITED STATES & CANADA VOLUNTEERS 136 East 39th Street, New York, NY 10016 West Point 2005: Remains of Two Machal MIAs Found and More Reports Identified After 57 Years The Machal memorial at Stanley Andrews. An article in both Volunteering to Become a Sha’ar Hagai lists 40 names of the English and Hebrew editions of Hero Americans and Canadians, Jews Haaretz of August 15, 2005 reported and non-Jews, who fell in the Israel finding and identifying the remains Boaz Ga’on, West Point War of Independence between 1947 of eight MIA including Math and This article was originally and 1948. Six of these are listed as Kaplan. Following is a reprint of published in the Shavuot Supplement MIAs and were long presumed dead. the article followed by comments to Ma’ariv, June 6, 2005. It has been They are Jerome Kaplan, Mandel from two of their comrades in the translated by the AVI Newsletter Math, Harvey Cohen, Edward Givati Brigade and sketches of editor. The article belongs to a Lugech, Robert Lester Vickman and them from A. Joseph Heckelman’s literary genre of perceptions of American Volunteers and Israel’s the “self” by the “other” such as DEDICATION OF War of Independence (1974). A European travelers who publish photograph of Math and Kaplan their perceptions of America. Of THE ALIYAH BET along with some comrades from course, American Jews dedicated AND MACHAL Givati, which appeared in the to Israel minimize differences MUSEUM English translation of the Machal between themselves and their Israeli (NOV. 18-20, 2005) booklet (2003), accompanies the compatriots. Yet, life conditions and text. The AVI Newsletter, summer, experiences leave their marks. Invitations to members follow by 1999 p.3-4 carried a translation of mail an article from the Yiddish Forward Colonel “Mickey” Marcus on Mandel Math. was killed in the Jerusalem hills American Veterans of Israel during t he War of Independence. (AVI) announces a gathering of IDF team locates bodies of 8 Ilan Chersky arrived from Beverly Aliyah Bet and Machal Veterans over who fell in ‘48 Hills and was killed in 973 on the weekend of November 8-20 to the banks of the Suez Canal. Paul inaugurate the Permanent Aliyah Bet The Israel Defense Forces Kaye ran away from his home in and Machal Display housed in the unit for finding missing persons 947 in order to help establish the new $8.5 million Hillel building at recently discovered the burial sites of Israeli fleet. Bob Marom was a tank Gainesville, Florida. All the events eight soldiers who were killed during driver in the Yom Kippur War. Once will take place at the Hillel House. the 948 War of Independence and each year Kaye, Marom and their Meals are prepared by the Hillel staff laid to rest on Mount Herzl and in colleagues gather at the prestigious and are certified Kosher. Family and Rosh Pina. West Point Military Academy in friends are welcome. Five of the soldiers had order to memorialize the Jews who served in the Givati unit and were fell in the 948 war. killed near Kibbutz Nahshon, and WESTPOINT continued on page 4 DEDICATION continued on page 20 MIA’S continued on page 2 three of the soldiers were killed near Two Comrades Remember American Veterans of Israel Mishmar Hayarden. 36 E. 39 Street The Givati soldiers were part Two of these soldiers, New York, NY 006-094 Officers and Executive Board of a force that captured an abandoned Jerry Kaplan and Mandel Matt, are British detention camp near Kibbutz well known to some of us. Jerry, President Nahshon. On the morning of May from Bayonne N.J., and Mandel Ira Feinberg 3, 948, the force was hit by heavy 20 886 1188 from Brooklyn, N.Y. were both gunfire. Corporal Shlomo Barber, Machalniks. Both had Zionist Vice President Private Yehuda Kaplan and Private backgrounds and good Jewish Bill Gelberg Matt Mandel went to the eastern fence educations. Matt was particularly Executive Director of the camp to get a cannon, and were Orthodox, having been an active Simon Spiegelman killed on the spot. Two other missing member of Mizrachi and in his 22 685 8548 soldiers - Private Yaakov Shenweiss younger days, a Yeshiva bocher. [email protected] and Private Moshe Hasman - were hit Both had served in the U.S. armed Treasurer near the western side of the fence, and forces in WWII. Jerry in the Navy David Gerard that is where their bodies remained. as a pharmacist’s mate and Mandel At the end of 949, while as an infantryman in Europe Vice Presidents members of the I DF rabbinate were where at one time he faced a court Canada: Jerry Rosenberg searching for missing soldiers from martial for his refusal, because he Israel Liaison: David Baum Operation Bin-Nun A, they found the was a Kohayn, to participate in a [email protected] bodies they were looking for, as well grave registration detail handling as those of three unidentified men the remains of Jewish victims at USA Regions Northeast: Paul Kaye buried in a mass grave of the brigade Dachau. Southeast: Irving Meltzer that had carried out the operation. Jerry and Mandel left New West: Bailey Nieder Investigators from the missing York on 3/30/48. They arrived in Midwest: Ben Hagai Steuerman persons unit concluded that the bodies Israel on 4/4/48 where they met Directors had belonged to Barber, Kaplan and up with a group of Machalniks from Newsletter, Internet and Mandel. Boston, Chicago and New York. Trustees Committee: At the beginning of 950, members The unit was assigned to Givati’s Samuel Z. Klausner 25 473 6034 of the IDF rabbinate conducted 5st battallion G (as in Gimel) [email protected] searches in the area west of the British company, based in Kibbutz Hulda detention camp and found 24 bodies across the valley from Latrun. It was Archives and Museum of IDF soldiers. But according to the in a firefight on a hilltop across the Ralph Lowenstein [email protected] investigators, the brigade that fought highway from Latrun that Jerry and there - Brigade 7 - lost 22 soldiers in Mandel went missing on 5/3/48, Speakers Bureau: the battle that took place there. The the day before Yom Atzmaut and Naomi Kantey other two, say the investigators, are just one month after they arrived in 20 489 3809 Shenweiss and Hasman. Israel. Aleihem hashalom. Activities and Membership Major General Elazar Stern, As much as we appreciate David Hanovice (USA) head of the personnel directorate, the story in Haaretz, there are a Joe Warner (Canada) approved the inquiry findings after number of errors and omissions in Art Bernstein (Museum) Representative to World Machal hearing the explanations given by it which should be corrected for Zippy Porath IDF Chief Rabbi Brigadier General historical accuracy: ) the story [email protected] Yisrael Weiss and the investigators. refers to Private Matt Mandel. His The families of the dead have been Websites name is, in fact, Mandel Matt. 2) http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~sklausne/avi- informed that their graves have been There is no identification of Jerry web.html found. and Mandel as Machalniks. 3) The http://www.israelvets.com story suggests that the operation Eli Ashkenazi in which they went missing was at 2 the site of an Abandoned British Talmudic fashion they are probably from my brother in Jerusalem: detention camp near Kibbutz still debating the question wherever “Sid: I’ve asked the Jerusalem Nachshon. Actually, that camp is they are. Lahem: Kol Hakavod. Post military correspondent, who nowhere near Nachshon. Rather, it Arnold Sternberg originally wrote the news item, is near Hulda, and the Brit’s camp whether he can find out more or is today the site of a joint Israeli Right after the battle (it at least tell me who I can contact. Arab-Jewish village known as wasn’t much of a battle) we had 2 He’s involved right now with the N’veh Shalom. 4) The Haaretz story cannon made of wood, plus rifles. evacuation story but he hopefully mentions “heavy gunfire” hitting We were being shelled and machine will come up with something.” gunned, and had to retreat. Afterward, the Givati force. That gunfire, Sidney Rabinovich according to a front page story in the the bodies weren’t located, and we Palestine (now Jerusalem) Post, the thought maybe they had been blown From the Heckelman book- up. At the same time, others were day after the battle (Friday, 5/4/48 Mandel Math -- Born August killed, and Al Glassman was hit in came from six British Comet tanks 22, 926, in Brooklyn, New York. his finger by shrapnel. By the way, stationed at the Tegart fortress at Given a strongly religious upbringing Latrun (now the IDF armored corps Mandel’s name was Math. at home and in school. His elementary museum). 5) The Haaretz story also education was at a day school says Jerry and Mandel went to the (Yeshiva), continuing at Herzliah eastern fence of the camp to get a Hebrew High School in New York. His cannon. They were in fact sent to attendance at Brooklyn College was retrieve ammo from the platoon’s interrupted by World War II. He served bus, which had been disabled by in the U.S. Army, participating in the the British tank fire. There was liberation of the survivors of the death no cannon. The heaviest piece of camps of Dachau and Buchenwald. “artillery” in the platoon was a 2- Was court-martialed and vindicated inch mortar minus its base plate.
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