[quote]Milton "Milt" Rubenfeld (September 13, 1919 – February 21, 2004) was a pilot who flew for the Royal Air Force and U.S. Army during World War II, later becoming [b]one of the five founding pilots of the Israeli Air Force[/b] in Israel's War of Independence. It is widely believed that Rubenfeld, the other four volunteer pilots, and the other machalniks changed the course of the War of Independence.[/quote]