Samson’s Foxes

1. Bren carrier - small British tracked military vehicle often carrying a Bren light machine gun.

2. Yigael Yadin - head of operations in Haganah General Staff (effec-tively Chief of the General Staff since Yaakov Dori was seriously ill) and later a world-famous archeologist.

3. Israel Galili - Chief of Staff of the Haganah 1946-1948, later held min-isterial positions in several governments.

Blood and Muck

1. Mourning - religious Jewish men do not shave for a month after a family death.

2. Mordechai Zeira - a popular composer at the time of folk and sol-diers’ songs.

3. Negev Animals - nickname for the motorized company of the Palmach brigade in the Negev.

4. Ruchamah - north Negev kibbutz.

5. Bedouins - nomadic people, nominally Arabs but seldom involved in political life.

6. Luger - high quality German semi-automatic pistol.

7. Keffiyeh - (Arabic) - traditional Arab headdress, consisting of a square of cloth held in place by a rope circlet

8. "Tfaddal" - "Please" or (as here) "OK," or "alright then."

9. "Yahud" - (Arabic) - "Jews."

Front Ants

1. Mugrabi Square - the central square of Tel Aviv at the time.

2. Olive leaves - worn by officers of the Israeli army on the shoulders as a sign of rank.

The End of the Ceasefire

1. Vickers - reliable, water-cooled medium machine gun.

2. Nir Am, Gvaram, Yad Mordechai - three kibbutzim in the northwest Negev.

3. Hashomer Hatzair - (Hebrew) - "The Young Guard" - socialist-Zionist youth movement, involved in the founding of kibbutzim.

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