Book contents
- Israel
- Israel
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- The Cartoonists Featured
- Preface and Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Jews: Caricatures, Cartoons, Comics
- Zionism: Ideology and the Building of the State
- Before Israel: the Road to 1948
- A History of Israel: 1949–2020
- 1949
- The 1950s
- The 1960s
- The 1970s
- The 1980s
- The 1990s
- The 2000s
- The 2010s
- Collections of Works of Early Israeli Cartoonists
- Index
1949
from A History of Israel: 1949–2020
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 January 2023
Book contents
- Israel
- Israel
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- The Cartoonists Featured
- Preface and Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Jews: Caricatures, Cartoons, Comics
- Zionism: Ideology and the Building of the State
- Before Israel: the Road to 1948
- A History of Israel: 1949–2020
- 1949
- The 1950s
- The 1960s
- The 1970s
- The 1980s
- The 1990s
- The 2000s
- The 2010s
- Collections of Works of Early Israeli Cartoonists
- Index
Summary
Israel’s war of independence and the Palestinian Nakba moved towards its close at the beginning of the year. Even so, there was fighting in Kfar Saba and Israeli cities were still being bombed by Egyptian aircraft. At the end of December 1948, the IDF, under the command of Yigal Allon, conducted Operation Horev to drive out Egyptian forces from the Negev and ‘the Faluja Pocket’. Egyptian airfields were attacked and undamaged Spitfires removed. The head of the IDF, Yigael Yadin, warned the Egyptians not to use gas as a weapon in attacks on Jewish settlements.
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- IsraelA History in 100 Cartoons, pp. 64 - 68Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023