Operation Nachshon (named after this biblical figure Nachshon ben Aminadav)
On 31 March a 60 vehicle Jewish convoy was ambushed at Hulda and forced to turn back with the loss of five vehicles and 17 dead.
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Dominique Lapierre and Larry Collins, O Jérusalem, Robert Laffont, 1971, ISBN 2-266-10698-8
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Nachshon was the first major Haganah operation and the first step of Plan Dalet whose aim was to conquer the area allotted to the Jews by the 1947 UN Partition Plan.
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