Yoel Palgi

Yoel Palgi
between 1942 and 1944
Native name
יואל פלגי‎
Birth nameEmil Nussbacher
Born1918
Cluj, Austria-Hungary
Died1978 (aged 59–60)
Allegiance Israel
BranchPalmach
SpousePhyllis Palgi
Other work
  • Deputy Director of El Al
  • Director of Civil Aviation
  • Ambassador to Tanzania

Yoel Palgi (Hebrew: יואל פלגי; born Emil Nussbacher 1918–1978) was a Palmach parachutist who was dropped by Britain into Yugoslavia during the Second World War to assist in the rescue of Hungarian Jews from the Holocaust and RAF pilots captured by the Germans.


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