Word: negeb
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1948-1948
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...order. Ben-Gurion and his ministers took a leisurely day and a half and four cabinet sessions to "study" the document and take full advantage of their luck. By the time U.N. got around to sending a clear cease-fire order, Beersheba had fallen and the control of the Negeb desert was solidly in Israeli hands...
...week's end the U.N.'s third truce in Palestine was being vigorously violated by both sides. The Jews stood accused by the U.N. Truce Commission of reopening hostilities in the Negeb and at Gaza. The Egyptians were fighting desperately to escape from their pockets. On the northern front, in Galilee, which had seen no major fighting since July 18, the Lebanese and Syrians opened a belated offensive...
Curtis ("Buzzy") Boettiger, who recovered from a mild attack of polio six weeks ago, and his boss, Henry Morgenthau, who are making a tour of Israel for the United Jewish Appeal, were all right (except for possible jangled nerves) after a few minutes under mortar fire in Negeb...
Land fell on Gaza (seat of the Mufti's new Arab government in Palestine). Arab forces opened up on Jewish settlements in the Negeb with 100-pound guns. Both sides rejected a U.N. cease fire order...
...week's end Ben-Gurion was beaming. For the first time since May, Israel had a wide, firm land corridor to her settlements in the Negeb. Israeli forces were also hammering closer & closer to Gaza, chief Arab supply base on the coast. Politician Ben-Gurion also hoped that U.N. delegates in Paris, now discussing Palestine, would agree with Israel that the best solution was an old formula: possession is nine points...