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Lt.-Col. Netanel Lorch
NETANEL LORCH (1925-1997) was Ambassador and former Secretary-General of the Knesset and founder of the IDF Historical Division.
Born in Germany, he emigrated to Palestine in 1935. He joined the H...view moreNETANEL LORCH (1925-1997) was Ambassador and former Secretary-General of the Knesset and founder of the IDF Historical Division.
Born in Germany, he emigrated to Palestine in 1935. He joined the Haganah at 16 and, within two years, commanded his village’s Gadna (Youth Battalion). In 1944 he served in the Jewish Brigade (part of the Allied Forces) in Egypt and Western Europe. In 1946 he worked as a scriptwriter with the Palestine Broadcasting Service before reenlisting full-time in the Haganah.
During the War of Independence he served as Platoon and later Company Commander in Jerusalem. After the war he was appointed aide-de-camp to General Yigael Yadin, Chief of the General Staff. In 1952 he organized and directed the Historical Section of the Israel Defense Forces. In 1955-1958, he was Israel’s consul in Los Angeles before establishing Israel’s consulate in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka).
He later founded and headed the African Division of Israel’s Foreign Ministry, served as Ambassador in Peru and Bolivia (1963-1967), and headed the Information and the Latin American Divisions at the Ministry before becoming Secretary General of Israel’s Parliament, the Knesset.
Lorch received his M.A. in modern history from the Hebrew University summa cum laude in 1951 and 35 years later, his Ph.D.
He died in June 1997.
SAMUEL LYMAN ATWOOD MARSHALL (July 18, 1900 - December 17, 1977) was a chief U.S. Army combat historian during World War II and the Korean War. Known professionally as S. L. A. Marshall, and nicknamed “Slam” (the combination of all four of his initials), he authored some 30 books about warfare, including Pork Chop Hill: The American Fighting Man in Action, which was made into a film of the same name.view less