Jewish Brigade
The Jewish Brigade (in English by its official name: Jewish Brigade Group, and in Hebrew also known as the "Jewish Combat Brigade" or by its acronym, "Hayi'el", as well as the "Hebrew Brigade", and by many, abbreviated as "the Brigade" [ "חטיבה יהודית לוחמת" או בראשי התיבות, "חַיִ"ל", וכן בשם "הבריגדה העברית", ובפי רבים, בקיצור "הבריגדה]) was a brigade in the British Army that was composed It was entirely made up of Jews, mainly from the Yishuv's people from Israel at Mandatory Palestine, as part of the Yishuv's volunteering for the British army in World War II. Britain agreed to (Jews' repeated requesrs) establish it only towards the end of World War II - in July 1944. One of the initiators of its establishment was Moshe Sharett, the head of the Jewish Agency's political department Great national importance. This was the first British military division in the Second World War, whose soldiers and commanders were only Jews from the Land of Israel, with a Hebrew identity and Zionist symbols, which participated in the war against Nazi Germany.