Yitzchak Sadeh , as well as the "real answer" served in a foreign army. Sadeh was decorated in the czarist army in WWI. Upon moving to Israel, he became involved in setting up the labor brigade in the 1920's. Then in the wake of the Arab rebellion of 1936, Sadeh proposed moving from a policy of defending settlements to seeking out Arab units in the open. He became the first commander of the Hagana's Plugot Sadeh ( field Units), which later became known as the Palmach. Yigal Alon described him as a great lover "of country, women, and the implacable logic of history."