Israel's Wars & Operations:
War of Independence

Reference Information

• Background & Overview
  • Analysis of 1948 War
  • U.S. State Department Summary of the War
• Total Casualties
• War Maps
• Myths & Facts
• CIA Evaluation of the Mideast Situation Following the 1948 War (1/19/49) [pdf]
• Report to the Zionist General Council by David Ben-Gurion (1948)

Truce & Armistice

• The First Truce
• The Second Truce
• The Bernadotte Truce Plan
• Armistice Lines — 1949 [map]
• Israel-Egypt Armistice Agreement
• Israel-Jordan Armistice Agreement
• Israel-Lebanon Armistice Agreement
• Israel-Syria Armistice Agreement
  • Letter to Security Council on Armistice negotiations
• Call to the Parties to Cease-Fire (December 1948)
• Call to the Parties to Cease-fire (May 1948)
• Demilitarization of Mt Scopus (1948)

Aftermath

• The Founding of the Israel Defense Forces
• The Palestinian Refugees
  • The Arab Refugees: 1948 [map]
• The Jewish Refugees: 1948-1972 [map]
• POW Exchanges
• Prime Minister Ben-Gurion Remarks on Israeli Victory
• Machal Volunteers

Battles & Operations

• Arab Armies Invade
  • Map of the Invasion
  • Arab League Invasion Declaration
  • Israeli PM Ben-Gurion’s Broadcast after Invasion
• The Battle for Degania
• The Battle For Gush Etzion
• The Battle For Jerusalem in the War of Independence
• The Battle for the Roads
• Operation Assaf
• Operation Danny
• Operation Dekel
• Operation Hamez
• Operation “Horev”
• Operation Nachshon
• Operation “Yiftach”
• Operation “Yoav”
• The Old City Saga [Memoir of the Fight]
  • Haganah Intelligence Report Regarding Jerusalem
• The Bombing of the King David Hotel
• Sinking the Emir Farouk
• The First IAF Fighter Mission
• Deir Yassin
• The Negev and The South
• British Police Report on the Arab Evacuation of Haifa