Man against Steel

1. Iraq Suweidan - one of the most important fortifications of the Egyptians on the front. A British-built fort-like police station.

2. Avor: Hebrew equivalent of "Roger" in radio communications procedure.

3. PIAT - Projector, Infantry, Anti Tank. Early anti-tank weapon, a bit like a primitive bazooka

4. "La ilaha ilia Allah wa Muhammad rasul Allah" - (Arabic) - "There is no god but God and Muhammad is the messenger of God," the Muslim creed.

5. Defense army - the official name for the Israeli armed forces is "Israel Defense Forces."

6. "Sallim nafsak!" - (Arabic) - "surrender!"

7. Calabush - (Hebrew slang from Arabic) - arrest cell or jail.

8. Nitzanim - Kibbutz South of Tel Aviv. The history of the fighting around this kibbutz and the fact of its surrender still plays an important role in the political-historical discourse in Israel to this day.

9. Czera Czertenko - birth name of Tzvi Tzur, who was later to become the Israeli Defense Force’s Chief of the General Staff, and then the Chief of the Mossad, the Israeli external intelligence service.

Eleven Days of Decision

1. Swing boy - ‘Swing’ was the counter-culture of the ‘30s and ‘40s that centered around swing music.

2. Fellah - (Arabic) - peasant or farmer (Fellaheen in the plural).

3. Albert Mandler - a later general of the Israeli army, who fell in the Yom Kippur War of 1973.

4. Ekron - small village south of Tel Aviv.

5. Camp Sarafand - one of the largest military camps in the center of the country, built by the British after the First World War.

6. Farouk - the King of Egypt from 1936 to 1952.

7. Ramat Gan - small town north of Tel Aviv.

8. Gadna - Hebrew abbreviation for "youth battalions," paramilitary training organization.

9. Spitfire - British single-engined fighter aircraft.

10. Samson’s Foxes - see Old Testament, Judges 15:4.5 "And Samson went and caught three hundred foxes, and took firebrands, and turned tail to tail, and put a firebrand in the midst between two tails. And when he had set the brands on fire, he let [them] go into the standing corn of the Philistines, and burnt up both the shocks, and also the standing corn, with the vineyards [and] olives."

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