Yesterday I attended the ceremony during which the Memorial for the Jewish Legion soldiers who fought nearby (see below) was unveiled.
The inscription:
The sculpture:
Me:
Now, what were the soldiers of the Jewish Legion doing in the vicinity?
From two books.
The Story of the Jewish Legion by Ze'ev Jabotinsky:
From Colonel JH Patterson's With the Judeans in the Palestine Campaign:
They marched and bivouacked and fought in Binyamin.
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they were not in a "Jewish Legiom" - that is its "slave name"
it was a Hebrew Legion. Says so right there in the name.
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