Development of the Hagana

In 1941 Giora Shannan was asked by Moshe Dayan to mobilize men to the Palmach and to be Yitzchak Sadeh's deputy. There were many difficulties, mainly in mobilization from the cities, getting men released from their jobs and assuring that their jobs would be kept for them. On rural settlements the mobilization was performed with the help of customs officials. But even here when the men returned from a course or training, and their job was taken over by someone else and they became a filler, the men preferred a complete mobilization or joined the British Army and thus there were many defectors. In 1941 there were 462 men in six companies; most of the soldiers were from settlements in the north. There were serious budgetary problems and logistical problems, maintenance equipment in the rural settlements. Training programs were performed in conjunction with the British owing to the threat of a German invasion.