Yoel Palgi

Yoel Palgi
between 1942 and 1944
Native name
יואל פלגי
Birth nameEmil Nussbacher
Born1918
Cluj, Austria-Hungary
Died1978
Allegiance Israel
Service / branchPalmach
Spouse(s)Phyllis Palgi[1]
Other work
  • Deputy Director of El Al
  • Director of Civil Aviation
  • Ambassador to  Tanzania

Yoel Palgi (Hebrew: יואל פלגי; born Emil Nussbacher[a] 1918–1978) was a Palmach parachutist who was dropped by Britain into Yugoslavia during the Second World War to assist in the rescue of Hungarian Jews from the Holocaust and RAF pilots captured by the Germans.[5]

  1. ^ Baumel 2003.
  2. ^ Baumel-Schwartz 2010, p. 13.
  3. ^ Orr 1994, p. 98.
  4. ^ Porat 1990, p. 315.
  5. ^ Terry White, Karl P. E. Veltzé (1995), Eliteverbände der Welt Ausbildung, Bewaffnung, Einsätze (in German) (1. Aufl ed.), Stuttgart, p. 81, ISBN 978-3-613-01688-0{{citation}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)


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