| Title |
"Cast thy bread" : Israeli biological warfare during the 1948 War. |
|---|---|
| Contributors |
Kedar, B. Z. |
| Host Item |
Middle Eastern Studies 59,5 (2023) 752-776 |
| Description |
This article describes Israel's bacteriological warfare campaign during the first Arab-Israeli war of 1948. Over the decades following that war rumours circulated that Israel had used bacteria, alongside conventional weaponry, in its battle against Palestine's Arabs and the surrounding Arab states. The declassification of files in the Israeli military archives, our discovery of a crucial letter in private hands, and the publication of a handful of memoirs relating to 1948 have enabled us to bridge the divide between rumour and fact to explain the campaign's origins to reconstruct its stages, beginning in April 1948 to identify who was involved – including Israel's prime minister, David Ben-Gurion and the Israeli army's de facto chief of general staff, Yigael Yadin, as well as leading Israeli scientists – and who actively opposed it and to delineate and assess what the campaign actually achieved or failed to achieve. In sum, this study helps to understand various aspects of the 1948 War. |
| Language |
English |
| National Library system number |
997012493038005171 |
| Links |
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