Jewish Settlement Police

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Group picture of members of the JSP around 1938

The Jewish Settlement Police (JSP) was a subdivision of the Notrim , founded in 1936 under the League of Nations Mandate for Palestine . The JSP was recruited from the Haganah and trained as an elite force . The members of the JSP, known as Nodedot , were trained in unconventional warfare by their commander Yitzchak Sadeh . This was characterized by its high mobility and surprising attacks. The JSP was very much feared by the Arabs. At the end of 1946 the JSP had around 16,000 police officers.

The JSP began working with British forces in 1936, under the command of Orde Charles Wingate , a British intelligence officer who was transferred to the Mandate Palestine in 1936. This formed the Special Night Squads , which took action against Arab rioters. A core task was also the protection of the pipelines of the Iraq Petroleum Company , which was sabotaged by Arab guerrilla units.

After World War II , as part of Notrim, the JSP became the centerpiece of the Israeli Military Police that was formed during the Israeli War of Independence .

  • Orde Charles Wingate

  • Officer in the JSP

  • Trooper of the JSP 1939

  • Trooper of the JSP 1942

See also

literature

  • Black, Ian (1992). Israel's Secret Wars: A History of Israel's Intelligence Services . Grove Press. ISBN 0-8021-3286-3 .
  • Katz, Sam (1988). Israeli Units Since 1948 . Osprey Publishing. ISBN 0-85045-837-4 .

Web links

Commons : Jewish Settlement Police  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Jewish Virtual Library: CHAPTER IX: Public Security ( Memento of February 24, 2012 in the Internet Archive )