Historical Background and Interviews
III. A New Beginning A New Beginning
Uzi Gal, another member of Kibbutz Yagur, invented the Uzi submachine gun, which has been used widely by the armies of Is- rael, the Netherlands, and other European countries. In 1976, he retired from Israel’s government-owned weapons-manufacturing company, Israeli Military Industries, and moved to Philadelphia to pursue medical treatment for his daughter.
1. Howard M. Sachar, A I listory of Israel from the Rise of Zionism to Our Time. pp. 300- 301 2. Martin Van Creveld, The Sword and the Olive A Critical History of the Israeli Defense Force, pp 39-40 3. Van Creveld, Ibid., p 42 4. Zeev Aner, Kibbutzim Stories 5. Yagur Book: Forty Years for Aliyah to the Soil 6. Yagur Book 7. Van Creveld, Ibid., p 40 8. Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre, O Jerusalem!, p. 36 9. Sachar, Ibid., pp. 604-605 History
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