Society Strength as a Base for Military Power: The State of Israel during the Early 1950s

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Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes 1. Avner Yaniv, Politics and Strategy in Israel, Haifa, 1994; Israel Tal, National Security: The Few Against the Many, Tel Aviv, 1996. 2. Dan Horowitz and Moshe Lissak, From Settlement to State, Tel Aviv, 1977, p. 293. 3. M. Sicron, Immigration to Israel, 1948–1953, Jerusalem. See also M. Sicron, Mass Immigration: Its Dimensions, Characteristics, and Influence on the Israeli Population Structure in Immigrants and Transit Camps, Jerusalem, pp. 31–52. For statistics, see Jewish Agency, Department of Immigrant Absorption, 1959. 4. Sicron, Mass Immigration, p. 43. 5. Tal, National Security, p. 17. 6. David Tal, Israel's Day-to-Day Security Conception: Its Origin and Development, 1949–1956, Beersheva, 1998. 7. Benny Morris, The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem, Tel Aviv, 1986. 8. Letter from Lieutenant-Colonel Harsina, Operations Branch of the General Staff entitled ‘Security Guidelines for Planning Agricultural Settlements and their Location’, February 1953. 9. State Archives 22/2393, 10 February 1955. Report from General Headquarters/Intelligence Branch on ‘Fortification of Frontier Settlements’, Central Zionist Archives (hereafter, CZA) S-15/9786. 10. Tal, Israel's Day-to-Day Security Conception, pp. 52–56. 11. Tal, Israel's Day-to-Day Security Conception, pp. 52–56 12. Morris, The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem 1947–1948. 13. Morris, Israel's Border Wars 1949–1956, p. 126. 14. Letter of David Shaltiel to the Minister of Defence, September 1949, CZA 150/86. 15. See ‘Session of the State Committee’, 28 December 1955, Labour Party Archives 26/55. 16. See meeting of the Mapai Secretariat with its Knesset faction, 18 June 1950, Labour Party Archives 1/11/3. 17. Yitzhak Rabin, Pinkas Sherut, Tel Aviv, 1979, p. 84. 18. See AZ file 104/51/56, 6 June 1949 and file 169/56/580, June 1949. 19. Education and Morale in the IDF, GHQ Discussion, 6 April 1950. 20. Education and Morale in the IDF, GHQ Discussion, 6 April 1950 21. Education and Morale in the IDF, GHQ Discussion, 6 April 1950 22. AZ. file 55/65 312, Composition of Inductees into Compulsory Service, 11 March 1951. 23. AZ. file 702/60 115, Research on the Problem of Military and Social Absorption of Oriental Immigrants, Adjutant General Office/GHQ, 6 March 1952. 24. Moshe Dayan, Milestones: Autobiography, Jerusalem, 1976, p. 121. 25. AZ 63/55, file 35, Report on a Visit to Infantry Units, Colonel Yehuda Wallach, 17 April 1953. 26. AZ 63/55, file 35, Report on a Visit to Infantry Units, Colonel Yehuda Wallach, 17 April 1953 27. AZ 63/55, file 35, Report on a Visit to Infantry Units, Colonel Yehuda Wallach, 17 April 1953 28. AZ, Report of Colonel Wallach, Moral Survey and Operational Capability of Infantry Brigades in the IDF, 1954. 29. AZ, 204/21, file 6031, meeting with company commanders who carried out the Operation at Nitzana, Jerusalem, 11 July 1955. Additional informationNotes on contributorsZe'ev DroryZe'ev Drory is a lecturer at the Department of History at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.