Category: War, from Wikidata’s class “battle”
Battle of Tel Hai
Part of: Intercommunal conflict in Mandatory Palestine Wikidata, Franco-Syrian War
Wikidata classes on our event-class list: battle (all its classes: Wikidata item)
The Battle of Tel Hai was fought on 1 March 1920 between Arab and Jewish forces at the village of Tel Hai in Northern Galilee. In the course of the event, a Shiite Arab militia, accompanied by Bedouin from a nearby village, entered the Jewish agricultural locality of Tel Hai in search of French soldiers, believing that the Jews were allied with the French and protecting their forces. Confusion over the presence of the militias subsequently led to shots being fired and a firefight breaking out. In the aftermath of the fighting, eight Jews and five Arabs were killed. Joseph Trumpeldor, the commander of Jewish defenders of Tel Hai, was shot in the hand and stomach, and died while being evacuated to Kfar Giladi that evening. Tel Hai was eventually abandoned by the Jews and burned by the Arab militia.
The event is perceived by some scholars as part of the Franco-Syrian War and by some as an outbreak of violence in the later developing intercommunal conflict in Mandatory Palestine.
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Battle of Tel Hai. (2026, October 21). In Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Battle_of_Tel_Hai&oldid=1381307387
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