WINGATE, Orde Charles.

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Wingate Memorial Forest: A Tribute to Major-General Charles Orde Wingate. An album commemorating the man known in Israel as simply "the friend". Like her husband, Lorna Wingate was a committed Zionist; after his death, she lobbied intensively for countries to back the 1947 UN partition resolution.In the eyes of David Ben-Gurion, Wingate was the de facto founder of the Israel defence Forces, while Winston Churchill mourned him in 1944 as "a man of genius... I hoped he might become a man of destiny" (10 September 1944, letter to Lorna Wingate). Dedicated three years after Wingate's death, the memorial forest was funded almost entirely by donations raised within Palestine. "The first saplings were placed on Jewish National Fund land at the feet of Mount Gilboa, overlooking the plain of Esdraelon, at a largely attended ceremony. The forest is intended to demonstrate Jews' esteem for the man whom Palestine Jews gave the rare accolade of the title 'Ha'ye-did [the friend]'" (New York Times).The album opens with views of Nahalal, the Masaryk and Balfour forests, and the surroundings of Ein Harod, where Wingate established his Special Night Squads headquarters and training centre. Photographs show a banner at the site of the forest with verses from Ezekiel ("In the mountains of the height of Israel will I plant it; and it will bring forth boughs and bear fruit"), the crowd on the day of the ceremony, and a soldier and policemen planting saplings. The closing shots are of children at E

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