page_title: Yisrael Galili
section_title: Biography
hierarchical_section_title: Yisrael Galili / Biography
caption_attribution_description: English: Israel Galili meeting with other commanders during Operation Yoav
context_page_description: Yisrael Galili was an Israeli politician, government minister and member of Knesset. Before Israel's independence in 1948, he served as Chief of Staff of the Haganah.
context_section_description: Yisrael Berchenko (later Galili) was born in the town of Brailov in the Russian Empire (now Ukraine). His family immigrated to Palestine when he was three years old and settled in Tel Aviv. Galili attended school there and apprenticed with a printer.
  Galili was a founder of the HaNoar HaOved ("Working Youth") youth group, and of Na'an, a kibbutz where he lived until his death.
caption: Israel Galili meeting with other commanders during Operation Yoav
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