The Jewish Legion was a number of military units formed in 1917 to help the British liberate Palestine from the rule of the Ottoman Empire. One battalion was recruited in England, another in the United States, and others in Egypt and Palestine, joining Edward Allenby as he advanced into Ottoman Turkey. After the war, many of its members such as David Ben-Gurion and Levi Eshkol proceedde to form the Haganah.