Word: arish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spite of these handicaps few men were killed; the Israell air corps did considerably better than the Egyptians, shooting down 24 of the enemy and executing several bombing raids on Damascus, Cairo, and El Arish, which lowered Arab moral. Mr. Augarten who found the Czoch Messerschmits an inferier successer to the Garman model destroyed four Egyptians, two better than his total score over Germany...
...Unrequited Love." In 1904, Fact-maker Weizmann went to live in England. The British government had already (in 1903) offered the Jews a national home in Uganda, British East Africa, and in the El Arish district, now in Egypt, which last month the Israeli army belatedly and briefly occupied. The Zionists had refused. It was up to Weizmann to explain why only Palestine would do. He started talking in 1906, when he first met Balfour; he was still talking (harder & faster) in 1916, when he was made director of the Admiralty Laboratories and invented a new means of producing acetone...
...Israeli military campaign had been a brilliant, hard-won success, highlighted by a fast three-day invasion of Egypt. Driving down the Egyptian right flank (after a feint at Gaza on the coast), the Israeli forces plunged headlong into Egypt and fought their way to El Arish, over 50 miles behind the frontier...
Everywhere they took the Egyptians by surprise. Cried one captured Egyptian colonel: "But what about our forces at Beersheba?" Israeli officers explained that they had captured Beersheba three months before, during the last Negeb campaign. At El Arish the Israelis severely damaged three enemy airfields and captured several Egyptian Spitfires, along with Egyptian soldiers and ammunition. Said Alouf† Yigal Yadin (31), chief of military operations: "It was a good opportunity to do as much damage as possible. It is not every day that we are in Egypt. The last time was 3,400 years...