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available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Yisrael Galili
(Hebrew: ¿¿¿¿¿ ¿¿¿¿¿¿, born Yisrael Berchenko on 10 February 1911, died
8 February 1986) was an Israeli politician, government minister and
member of Knesset. Before Israel's independence in 1948, he had served
as Chief of Staff of the Haganah. Galili was born in the town of Brailov
in the Russian Empire (now Ukraine). His family immigrated to Palestine
when he was three years old, and settled in Tel Aviv. Galili attended
school there and apprenticed with a printer. Galili began his military
career in 1927, when he enlisted in the Haganah. He was appointed to the
organization's leadership committee in 1935, and was later placed in
charge of Acquisitions and Armaments. During the Second World War, he
was involved in preparations to counter an anticipated German invasion
of Palestine. He was appointed Chief of Staff of the Haganah in 1946,
and served in that capacity until the group was disbanded by David
Ben-Gurion in 1948, upon the establishment of the State of Israel.
