Palmach

After his release he became the commander of the second Palmach battalion and rose to the position of Chief Operations Officer of the Palmach in October 1947.

Peleg, a member of the Palmach pre-state underground, founded Kibbutz Erez near Gaza.

According to Amnon Neumann, a Palmach veteran of the Southern front, hardly any Arab villages in the south fought back, due to the miserable poverty of their means and lack of weapons, and suffered expulsion.

Benny Morris (2003), p. 242 Within the framework of the establishment of Jewish territorial continuity foreseen by Plan Dalet, the forces of Haganah, Palmach and Irgun intended to conquer mixed zones.

During this period, Lichtenfeld trained several elite units of the Haganah including Palmach (striking force of the Haganah and forerunner of the special units of the Israel Defense Forces ) and the Pal-Yam, as well as groups of police officers.

Following the demobilization at the end of the war he was the most senior (former) member of the Palmach that remained in the IDF.

Leah Rabin was working at the time as a reporter for a Palmach newspaper.

On May 14, 1941, the Haganah created the Palmach (an acronym for Plugot Mahatz—strike companies), an elite commando section, in preparation against the possibility of a British withdrawal and Axis invasion of Palestine.

Slater, pp. 46–47 Allon continued to train the young Palmach forces.

The Haganah and Palmach carried out ten such operations.

The Jordanians launched two counterattacks, temporarily taking Beit Susin before being forced back, and capturing Gezer after a fierce battle, which was retaken by two Palmach squads the same evening.

The nickname is also attributed to a long Arab dress he wore during his underground days in Palmach.

The re-organisation led to several conflicts between Ben-Gurion and the Haganah leadership, including what was known as The Generals' Revolt and the dismantling of the Palmach.