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about 70 Jewish fighters held off an assault by an entire
Syrian
infantry
brigade
and several armored battalions as part of the
Battles of the Kinarot Valley
(see map)
on
May 20
,
1948
?
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PIAT
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Israel Defense Forces
, received the
Hero of Israel
citation for his actions in
Operation Death to the Invader
on July 18, 1948?
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2006 Lebanon War
by the
Winograd Commission
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Eyal Eisenberg
was promoted to command the
Israel Defense Forces
's
Gaza Division
?
following the capture of
Kafr 'Inan
during the
1948 Arab-Israeli war
, its inhabitants were expelled by the
Israel Defense Forces
on three separate occasions in 1949?
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Palmach
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Haim Hefer
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, was performed partly in the
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equivalent of
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, discoverer of
Neanderthal
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Qesem Cave
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Israel
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China
were cultivating
military cooperation
well before the
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in 1992?
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recipient
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Speaker of the Knesset
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Consuls
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from
Canterbury, Kent
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in
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and
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Jerusalem
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Jerusalem
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Lydda
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