Wingate & the Jewish Brigade
The British doctrinal parent
[Report #168] Early Israeli forces learned their trade from Britain: thousands of Haganah operatives served in the British Army's Jewish Brigade Group in WWII, and Orde Wingate's Special Night Squads (1936–39) stamped the early IDF's commando and counterinsurgency doctrine — a direct doctrinal carry-forward, filed high-weight (finding #168.004).