AS SEEN ON TV: ASHER FELD

ASHER FELD

CREATED BY:

Robert Ludlum

PORTRAYED BY:

Len Birman

AS SEEN IN:

'The Rhinemann Exchange'

TV DIMENSION:

Earth Prime-Time

Feld was a member of the Haganah, which was trying to sabotage the negotiations for the exchange.

From Wikipedia:

Haganah (Hebrew: "The Defense") was a Jewish paramilitary organization in what was then the British Mandate of Palestine from 1920 to 1948, which later became the core of the Israel Defense Forces.

In the first years of World War II, the British authorities asked Haganah for cooperation again, due to the fear of an Axis breakthrough in North Africa. After Rommel was defeated at El Alamein in 1942, the British stepped back from their all-out support for Haganah. In 1943, after a long series of requests and negotiations, the British Army announced the creation of the Jewish Brigade Group. While Palestinian Jews had been permitted to enlist in the British army since 1940, this was the first time an exclusively Jewish military unit served in the war under a Jewish flag. The Jewish Brigade Group consisted of 5,000 soldiers and was deployed in Italy in September 1944. The brigade was disbanded in 1946. All in all, more than 30,000 Palestinian Jews served in the British army during the war.

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