Nyorera kupfuurira kweiyi ndima - Paive nenguva mbiri munguva yehondo apo Yishuv yakatarisana nekutyisidzira kwakananga kubva kumauto echiNazi. Yokutanga yakaitika pashure pokukunda kweGermany France muna 1940, sezvo hurumende yaVichy yaitsigira vaNazi yaidzora Levant yokuchamhembe, uko kupindirwa kwePalestine kwaigona kuitika. Zvisinei, muna 1941 mauto eBritain akabudirira kurwisa mauto eVichy kuti atonge Siriya neRebhanoni, nokudaro achibvisa kutyisidzira kwekupinda kubva kuchamhembe, chero bedzi mauto eGermany muEastern Europe aigona kudzoserwa neRed Army uye nokudaro asingakwanisi kufambira mberi nyore nyore akananga kuNear East kubva kuchamhembe. Muna 1942, zvisinei, sezvo Erwin Rommel's Afrika Korps yakatsvaira North Africa nechinangwa chekutora Suez Canal, mukana wekupinda kweGerman kubva kumaodzanyemba wakava mukana chaiwo, zvichikonzera kushushikana kukuru muYishuv uye zvichikurudzira zvirongwa kuti zvigadziriswe kuzvidzivirira. Vachiziva kuti kudzora kweNazi kwePalestine kwaireva kuparadzwa kwechokwadi kweYishuv, gakava rakaputika pakati pehutungamiriri hweYishuv kuti, kana basa reNazi raizoitika, vagari veYishuv vaifanira kubuda pamwe chete nemauto eBritish kumabvazuva vakananga kuzvinhu zveBritish muIraq neIndia kana kuita Masada
-sechinzvimbo chokupedzisira muPalestine, sezvingabvira achiita kudaro munharaunda yakasimbiswa ichakurumidza kuvakwa yakapoteredza Makomo eKarmeri. Basa iri rehondo rakapiwa zita repamutemo rokuti Palestine Final Fortress. Nenzira yakanaka nokuda kweYishuv, kufambira mberi kwemauto eGermany kumabvazuva muEgypt kwakamiswa mukati meHondo yechipiri yeEl Alamein, nokudaro kubvisa kutyisidzira kwekupinda kubva kumaodzanyemba. Nguva yokushushikana yakatungamirira kukurasikirwa kweNazi paEl Alamein yakazivikanwa samazuva 200 okutya.