Yaakov Dori

first chief of staff of the state of Israel

Yaakov Dori (1899–1973, born Yaakov Dostrovsky) was the first Chief of Staff of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). Born in the present day Ukraine, his family emigrated to Ottoman Palestine following the anti-Jewish pogrom in Odessa in 1905 . Upon completing high school at the Hebrew Reali School in Haifa, he enlisted in the Jewish Legion of the British Army during World War I. He later joined the Haganah and adopted the underground name of "Dan."
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