Word: shemona
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...main force arrived to join the scouts. A body count produced 21 claimed dead-the largest number of commandos ever killed in one fight on Israeli territory. Three other major Arab thrusts came from southern Lebanon. Rockets killed a father and daughter in the east Galilee town of Kiryat Shemona; three Israeli soldiers died in an ambush on the foothills of Mount Hermon, and Israeli police near Haifa trapped a Fatah band, claiming four kills while suffering three wounded. In the wake of those attacks, Defense Minister Moshe Dayan warned: "Israel must take action across the border." Late...