The Palmach Special Units
The Fourth Palmach battalion was the HQ Battalion, organized as the special units' battalion.
The Fourth Palmach Battalion was the HQ Battalion, organized as the 'Special Units' Battalion. It included the Seventh Company – Patrols; the Tenth Naval Company – Marines ('Palyam'); the Aviators Unit, the 'Mistaarvim' Unit, and the Balkan, Syrian and German Units.
The first commander of the Battalion was Shimon Avidan.
The Fourth battalion HQ served as a kind of regimental framework, but in reality these special units ran their own military operation. Only the coordination between them and the rest of the military forces was done but the Fourth Battalion HQ.
The first commander of the Battalion was Shimon Avidan.
The Fourth battalion HQ served as a kind of regimental framework, but in reality these special units ran their own military operation. Only the coordination between them and the rest of the military forces was done but the Fourth Battalion HQ.