Editing Levi Eshkol (section)

===Political and military activity 1940–49===
[[File:עליה לקיבוץ יסעור 4 צלם בנו רותנברג 1949 גנזך המדינה.jpg|thumb|250px|Eshkol at kibbutz [[Yas'ur]] in 1949]]
Eshkol returned to serve in the Haganah high command from 1940 to 1948 and was in charge of the organization's treasury.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/eshkol.html |title=Levi Eshkol |access-date=2012-01-04 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160316090135/http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/eshkol.html |archive-date=16 March 2016}}</ref> He engaged in arms acquisition for the Haganah prior to and during the [[1948 Arab–Israeli War]].

Between 1942 and 1944, Eshkol served as Secretary General of Mapai.

During the [[Second World War]] Eshkol advocated for Jewish enrollment to the [[British military]]. However, he confirmed with the [[Yishuv]]'s leadership and later joined the ideology asserting differentiation between the global front and the local front, fighting against the [[Mandate for Palestine|British Mandate]]. In 1945–46 Eshkol was representative of Haganah in the leadership of the [[Jewish Resistance Movement]].

In 1944 he was appointed as the Secretary General of [[Tel Aviv]] Workers' Council, remaining in this position until 1948.

In 1947 Eshkol was appointed as a member of the two major defense forums: The [[Negev Committee]] that oversaw the administration of the Negev prior to the declaration of independence of Israel, as well as the general Defense Committee of the Yishuv's leadership. Later that year, he was appointed by David Ben-Gurion to head the national recruitment center, which laid foundations to the formation of [[Israel Defense Forces]] upon independence of the State of Israel, in May 1948, at which point Eshkol was appointed Director-General of the Ministry of Defense, serving from May 1948 to January 1949.<ref>[http://www.mfa.gov.il/mfa/aboutisrael/state/pages/levi%20eshkol.aspx "Levi Eshkol"] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160409104438/http://www.mfa.gov.il/mfa/aboutisrael/state/pages/levi%20eshkol.aspx |date=9 April 2016 }}, Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs web site.</ref>