Brigadier Orde Charles Wingate, God-fearing soldier son of a God-fearing soldier father, was steeped in the Old Testament. He was a Plymouth Brother, but by the time he went to Palestine as a captain in 1936 to train Jews against Arab night attacks, Wingate had come to think of the Zionist cause as if it were his own.
He set up headquarters for his Jewish "Special Night Squads" in the hilltop Jewish settlement of Ein Harod, facing Mount Gilboa. He considered that Israel's King Saul should have pitched his camp in the same spot, instead of in the valley below....
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