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28 unusual facts about 1948 Arab-Israeli war


Abdurrahman Fatalibeyli

By 1948, he had been invited to Egypt and was a military adviser for the Arabs during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War.

Al-Kabri incident

The al-Kabri incident refers to a military operation carried out by the Israeli army during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War in retaliation for the ambush of the Yehiam convoy.

Battle of Abu-Ageila

Battles of the Sinai (1948), including a battle for Umm Katef – Abu Ageila, in the 1948 Arab–Israeli War

Beni Virtzberg

He joined the Palmach in February 1948 and fought in Israel’s War of Independence.

Contemporary Art in Egypt

First, the creation of Israel in 1948, followed by the war, has marked the spirits of Egyptians artists.

Estimates of the Palestinian Refugee flight of 1948

This article lists the various interim and final United Nations estimates for the number of Palestinian people who fled or were expelled from the area that became part of Israel after the 1948 Arab–Israeli War.

Gentlemen, history returns

Gentlemen, history returns (Hebrew: "רבותי, ההיסטוריה חוזרת" is a song Hebrew song, written by Haim Hefer and composed by Shmual Parsheko during last stages of the 1948 Israeli Arab war.

Hatta, Gaza

Hatta was captured on July 17–18, 1948, during Operation Death to the Invader, the last operation of the Ten Days period—the period between the two ceasefires of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War.

History of the Jews in Vancouver

Local Jewish men trained here in 1948 to fight in the Israeli War of Independence.

Israeli military prison

The need to create prisons in the IDF arose as the soldiers' discipline deteriorated over the course of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War.

Kenneth W. Bilby

After the World War, he covered the 1948 Arab–Israeli War and authored the book: New Star in the Near East.

Khaled J. Saleh

The family eventually settled in Kuwait after being evacuated in 1948 from their town Salameh, located just outside of Tel Aviv, Israel during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War.

King David Hotel

At the end of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, the hotel found itself overlooking "no-man’s land" on the armistice line that divided Jerusalem into Israeli and Jordanian territory.

Lausanne Conference of 1949

Representatives of Israel, the Arab states Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon and Syria, and the Arab Higher Committee and a number of refugee delegations were in attendance to resolve disputes arising from the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, mainly about refugees and territories in connection with Resolution 194 and Resolution 181.

Michael O. Rabin

After high school, he was drafted into the army during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War.

Najd, Gaza

According to Benny Morris, the villagers of Najd were "driven out" by soldiers from the Negev Brigade on 12–13 May, during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War.

One from the GHL

One from the GHL (Hebrew: אחד מן הגח"ל ) is a Hebrew poem, later composed as a song, written by Nathan Alterman during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war.

Palestine Railways P class

After the War of Independence and subsequent 1948 Arab–Israeli War, main line services were truncated to the territory within the new State of Israel.

Palestinian American

Others came as a result of the tension during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War and the 1967 Six-Day War.

Qamaran wa Zaytouna

The father who is completely paralyzed after been injured during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, and the mother (Norman Asaad) who is suffering from sexual deprivation and loneliness, which make her a cruel woman punishing her son severely because he sucks on his finger and her daughter because she sympathizes with him, by shaving their hair completely.

Rail transport in Israel

During the 1948 War of Independence, much damage was done to the railways in the country, especially the Jezreel Valley railway, which was not rebuilt due to financial constraints and its incompatibility with the rest of the rail network.

Rosh HaNikra grottoes

Rosh Hanikra was the location where Israeli and Lebanese officials negotiated and concluded an armistice agreement in 1949 which ended the Lebanese-Israeli component of the 1948 War of Israeli Independence.

Salim Tamari

When he was three years old, in April 1948, his family fled Jaffa when it was attacked by Jewish paramilitary groups as part of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War.

Service Book

Among other things, Rabin wrote about controversial affairs: the expulsion of the Arabs during the Israel's War of Independence, the sinking of Altalena and more.

Solomon Perel

Once in Israel, Perel joined the army to fight in the 1948 Arab–Israeli War.

United Nations General Assembly Resolution 194

United Nations General Assembly Resolution 194 was adopted on December 11, 1948, near the end of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War.

Yigal Allon

During the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, Allon led several of the major operations on all three fronts, including Yiftach in the Galilee, Danny in the Centre, Yoav, and Horev in the Negev.

Yuli Tamir

As Minister of Education, she approved a history textbook for Arab children, wherein Israel's War of Independence is described as the nakba – the disaster.


1948 Cairo bombings

The bombing took place during the first truce phase of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, and the authorities initially blamed the explosion on fireworks stored in Jewish homes and fighting between Karaite and Rabbinic Jews.

Arab Higher Committee

Anwar Nusseibeh, a Palestinian nationalist who believed that the best way to advance Palestinian interest was to operate within whichever regime was in power, criticized the Arab Higher Committee's performance during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War as being unaware and ineffective at best and ambivalent at worst to the needs of the Palestinian Arab population.

Avraham Ofer

In the 1948 Arab-Israeli War he served in the Israeli Navy as Lieutenant Colonel, and was the first commander of the Eilat Naval Base.

Causes of the 1948 Palestinian exodus

The causes and explanations of the exodus of Palestinian Arabs that arose during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine and the 1948 Arab–Israeli War are a matter of great controversy between historians, journalists and commentators of the Arab–Israeli conflict.

Cruella de Ville

Phil has written a book (Memories of the Irish-Israeli War) and a play (Together Against Him, which was awarded a bursary by The Arts Council of Great Britain) under the name Phil O'Brien (O'Brien is the Munizers' mother's maiden name) and has served as dramaturge for the Royal National Theatre.

Egypt–United States relations

After the 1973 Arab-Israeli War, Egyptian foreign policy began to shift as a result of the change in Egypt's leadership from the fiery Nasser to the much more moderate Anwar Sadat and the emerging peace process between Egypt and Israel.

Ezra Danin

On May 11, 1948, three days before the proclamation of the independence of Israel Danin again accompanied Meir to Amman, trying to persuade Abdullah not to join the coming Arab-Israeli war of 1948.

New Historians

Teddy Katz versus Alexandroni Brigade
In 1998, Teddy Katz interviewed and taped Israeli and Palestinian witnesses to events at Tantura in 1948 and wrote a master's thesis at Haifa University claiming that the Alexandroni Brigade committed a massacre in the Arab village of Tantura during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war.

Ramat David Airbase

After the Israeli Declaration of Independence and the start of the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, the base was temporarily maintained by the RAF to cover the withdrawal of British forces from Palestine.

S. Yizhar

In 1949, he published the novella Khirbet Khizeh, in which he described the expulsion of Palestinian Arabs from their village by the IDF during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War.

Shlomo Arel

With the outbreak of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War Shlomo Arel joined the Israeli Navy and he became the captain of the Israeli Naval vessel Palmach.

The Texas-Israeli War: 1999

Clairewood celebrates with Sol, Myra, and Brown over bottles of Coca-Cola, no longer manufactured in the United States but now imported from Israel.