The Mobile units "Nomads" or "Wanderers" () was a detachment of the Haganah Jewish self-defense force in Mandate Palestine set up during the 1936–1939 Arab revolt in Palestine as a mobile field-intelligence corps.Pedazhur, 2009, pp. 14-17 The purpose of the Nodedot was to locate and defeat organised Arab resistance groups before they achieved operational capability.
The detachment was formed on the inspiration of Yitzhak Sadeh, a former officer in the Russian Army and a senior leader in the Haganah, as small night patrols capable of ambushing Arab rebels operating in the area of Jewish settlements.Oring, 1981, pp. 13-14.
As the Arab Revolt intensified Sadeh used the tactics he had developed with the Nodedot to establish a permanently mobilized force with regional commands called the Fosh and a joint unit with the British Army called the Special Night Squads.
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