During the
War
of Independence, a number of Jewish communities were captured,
mostly by the Jordanian army - Kibbutz Beit Ha-arava and Kaliya
north of the
Dead
Sea, the four kibbutzim of
Gush
Etzion west of
Bethlehem,
Atarot and Neve Yaakov north of
Jerusalem,
and the
Jewish Quarter in the Old City of Jerusalem. Kfar Darom, near
Gaza,
was captured by the Egyptian army. In addition, when the War of
Independence broke out at the end of 1947, the remnant of the Jewish
community of
Hebron fled.
