Jews from Ukraine: Yaakov Dori – from Odessa self-defense to the first Chief of Staff of Israel and President of the Technion

The story of the first Chief of the General Staff of the Israel Defense Forces did not begin in Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, or Haifa. It began in Odessa — a city in modern-day Ukraine, where in 1899 a boy named Yaakov was born into the Dostrovsky Jewish family. A few years later, his father would […] Text " Jews from Ukraine: Yaakov Dori – from Odessa self-defense to the first Chief of Staff of Israel…