Summary
Chief of the Palmach, the commando units of the Haganah, and a military member of the Consultancy in The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine; his wife Margot Sadeh ran the Village Files project’s secret film laboratory in her house.
Details
- Sadeh is named among the military men of the Consultancy, “figures unknown outside Israel but well grounded in the local ethos, such as Yigal Allon and Yitzhak Sadeh”, who joined the top-ranking officers in the group that prepared the plans for the ethnic cleansing and supervised its execution (The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine, PDF p.27-28).
- “Yitzhak Shefer, from Tel-Aviv, and Margot Sadeh, the wife of Yitzhak Sadeh, the chief of the Palmach (the commando units of the Hagana), were recruited too” to the village files’ photographic work; the film laboratory operated in Margot’s house with an irrigation company serving as a front, hidden from the British authorities (The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine, PDF p.43).
Related pages
The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine, Consultancy, Village Files, Palmach, Haganah