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.
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."
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.
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.