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Haganah Ribbon

The in 1958 instituted Haganah ribbon can be awarded to members of the Haganah and Palmach organisations for services of at least six months between 1920 and the institution of the State Israel.
When passed away, a family member can apply for the decoration posthumously.
The Haganah and Palmach organisations were militant resistence movements in Palestine that were consireded illiegal by the British rulers of Palestine. During the Second World War from 1944 and onwards, specially the Haganah organised mass immigrations of Jews from Europe and elsewhere to Palestine.

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