Jewish Parachutists of Mandate of Palestine

The Jewish Parachutists of Mandate Palestine were a group of 250 Jewish people from Mandatory Palestine who volunteered to join the British Army and fight Nazi Germany during World War II. A national burial site for them is located in the national military and police cemetery in Mount Herzl in Jerusalem. In the grave site are three graves of famous paratroopers and four empty graves for the paratroopers that were killed in the Holocaust in the death camps.

 Other websites 
the graves Jewish Parachutists of Mandate Palestine in Mount Herzl in the Commonwealth War Graves Commission site
Combat and Resistance: Jewish Soldiers in the Allied Armies  on the Yad Vashem website
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum - Jewish Parachutists from Palestine

Category:Mandatory Palestine
Category:20th century in Israel
Category:History of Palestine
Category:World War II
Category:Burials at Mount Herzl