Joining them last Friday (June 1) were younger men and women who had seen action in the Six Day and Yom Kippur wars and the Lebanon campaigns, as well as families of deceased volunteers.
LOS ANGELES – To mark the 70th anniversary of modern Israel’s independence, the nation’s consul-general in Los Angeles, Sam Grundwerg, invited a small group of surviving American volunteers, most also vets of World War II, who had clandestinely volunteered for the Israeli army, navy and air force during the 1948 War of Independence. Joining them last Friday (June 1) were younger men and women who had seen action in the Six Day and Yom Kippur wars and the Lebanon campaigns, as well as families of deceased volunteers.
