Portal:Israel/Did you know/7
- ...that Bechor-Shalom Sheetrit (pictured) was the only signatory of the Israeli declaration of independence to have been born in the Land of Israel?
- ...that Mickey Marcus, a U.S. Army colonel who assisted Israel during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War and became Israel's first aluf (major general), is the only person buried at the United States Military Academy who died fighting under a foreign flag?
- ... that the Israeli Air Force's first heavy bombers were three B-17 Flying Fortresses smuggled to Israel in the late 1940s by Charles Winters and his associates?