The legendary Shlomo Hillel - secret agent, Haganah officer, politician and diplomat - passed away at the age of 97.

Seventy years later, Murray Greenfield can still remember the anger he felt when he was locked up with hundreds of Jewish Holocaust survivors in a British detention camp on the Mediterranean island of Cyprus.

On March 6, 1948, Truman Adviser Clark Clifford Opposed the State Department on Partition, calling to divide Palestine into a Jewish and an Arab state.

The ammunition plant was on a kibbutz that to the average observer was no more than a collective farm. Almost 30 feet below ground, however, was another world.

Most Hashomer fighters lived to see the reality of Jewish defense, and almost all witnessed the establishment of the State of Israel.