Obituary: Jerry Gross, 96, one of the last surviving overseas volunteers who fought for Israel in the 1948 war
Joseph “Jerry” Gross, one of the few surviving machalniks, overseas volunteers who fought in Israel’s 1948 War of Independence, died in Montreal on Jan. 14. He was 96. Gross was among 268 Canadians, most of them Second World War veterans like him, who joined with natives of British Mandate Palestine in the fight to secure […]