A number of specially trained Jewish parachutists joined the British forces this week, it was learned here today. Simultaneously, Moshe Shertok, head of the political department of the Jewish Agency, addressing the Jewish Women Workers conference in Tel Aviv, disclosed that special Jewish artillery units have been formed in Palestine with the permission of the military authorities.
Rachel Friedman, an officer of the Palestine Auxiliary Territorial Service, told the conference that fifty percent of the 1,220 Jewish women who enlisted in the Service are under thirty years of age, while the others are in their middle thirties, and ten percent of them are over 40 years old. Two-thirds of the enlisted Jewish women have high school or university educations. About 25 percent of all those enlisted have joined truck units as drivers.
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