This was the first British military brigade in World War II, which All of its soldiers and commanders were only Jews of Palestine, with Jewish life and Zionist emblems, who participated in the war against Nazi Germany. The Jewish brigade took part in battles conducted to launch the last German line of defense in northern Italy, the Genghis Khan line, under the Allied Italian Front At its peak, the brigade numbered about 5,000 soldiers – more than 13 percent of the total number of volunteers from the Jewish community in Palestine to the British army, estimated at 38,000.