Joshua Myron, one of the last surviving members of the Zionist brigade that fought against Turkey in Palestine during World War I, died earlier this month in New York at the age of 102. Myron was one of the members of the Jewish Legion, led by Ze’ev Jabotinsky, that used camels to move from front to front.
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