Jehuda L. Wallach
Israeli historian (1921–2008)
Jehuda Lothar Wallach (Hebrew: יהודה ואלך) (12 March 1921 in Haigerloch, Germany – 1 August 2008 in Tel-Aviv, Israel) was an Israeli military officer and military historian.
Early life and education
The son of Louis Wallach and his wife Minna Rothheimer, Jehuda Wallach attended school in Mannheim, Germany, before he emigrated at age fifteen with his parents in 1936 to the British Mandate for Palestine. After graduating from high school, he lived for some years in Beit Zera on the south shore of the Sea of Galilee, a kibbutz that had been founded nearly a decade earlier by immigrants from Austria and Germany. While in Beir Zera in 1940, he married Chava Turetzky, with whom he later had three children: Roni, Eliezer, and Uri.
Military career
As a boy, Wallach joined the Haganah, the Jewish paramilitary organization. During the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, Wallach was a battalion commander in the Givati Brigade and fought in the northern Negev. In 1949, he was appointed to command the Tenth Brigade and became one of the first army division commanders of the Israeli Defense Force. In 1956 (before Operation Kadesh) he was one of the first two commanders in the IDF (along with Haim Laskov), when he established and commanded Division 38, which moved on the main axis in Sinai. Possibly due to a dispute between him and Moshe Dayan, who was chief of staff, over the form of operation of the armor following which Dayan commanded the division, while bypassing the authority of Wallach. In these battles, four IDF brigades failed to overcome two brigades Egyptians who were arranged in organized complexes.
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