By Leslie Stein
On could 14, 1948 the nation of Israel was once declared, introduced by means of David Ben-Gurion at a small collecting that assembled in most cases corridor of the Tel Aviv paintings Museum. inside a time-frame of merely nineteen years, culminating within the Six-Day conflict, Israel fought 3 separate wars. yet inside of its first 4 years, because of mass immigration, its inhabitants doubled. moreover, Israel have been faced with acute financial problems, intra Jewish ethnic tensions, a frustrating Arab minority and a secular-religious divide. except defence matters, Israel confronted a commonly opposed or, at most sensible, detached overseas neighborhood rendering it difficult pressed in securing nice strength patronage or perhaps reputable sympathy and knowing. according to quite a lot of assets, either in Hebrew and English, this ebook includes a really appropriate synthesis of the acquired literature to yield the overall reader and scholar alike a competent, balanced, and novel account of Israel?s fateful and turbulent infancy.
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The fall of the Jewish quarter was a grievous loss not only to Israel but to the entire Jewish nation. For the Arab Legion the capture of the Jewish quarter constituted but one aspect of the battle for Jerusalem. On May 22, as fighting raged in the Old City, an armored Transjordanian column led by Bill Newman, an Australian, sought to enter Jaffa Street, the modern city’s main thoroughfare. 24 Burning furiously, the carrier inadvertently obstructed the rest of the column, forcing the Legionnaires to withdraw.
An exchange of fire developed between fighters of the Irgun and those of the IDF’s Palmah unit under Yigal Allon’s direct command. During the skirmish, a shell, supposedly intended as a warning shot, struck the vessel and set it alight. Those on board jumped into the water to be rescued by the Irgun and Palmah alike. At the end of the day the Irgun had 14 dead and 69 wounded, whereas the IDF suffered two mortalities and six casualties. All in all (both at Kfar Vitkin and Tel Aviv), 24 lives were lost.
They began arriving via the Allenby Bridge on May 14, brimming with confidence that they would defeat the Jews within a fortnight. King Abdullah of Transjordan coveted land designated by the UN as part and parcel of a Palestinian state. Although he may have had some initial reservations about conquering Jerusalem, as a devout Muslim, the city meant much to him. At the heart of Jerusalem stood the Old 26 THE WAR OF INDEPENDENCE City immured by thick stone walls housing seven impregnable portals. Within its precepts were the four distinct Jewish, Muslim, Christian and Armenian Quarters, each containing venerable sites.