Luke Elias “Tex” Paschkoff
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7th Brigade
Irving L. Matlow
Irving L. Matlow of Toronto served in Israel’s 1948 War of Independence with the 7th Brigade, 72nd Battalion, one of the many North American volunteers (Machal) who joined the fight for the newborn state. He remains among the living veterans of that generation. Read the Jerusalem Post feature →
Ralph Lowenstein
Read the AVILC tribute: A Tribute to Ralph Lowenstein → Works A Time of War: A Novel of the First Israeli War (also published as Bring My Sons from Far) — his novel of the 1948 war. Founder of the American Veterans of Israel archives and the Aliyah Bet & Machal Museum at the University