Operation Makkabi

Start Date

08 May 1948

End Date

31 May 1948

Zionist Unit(s)

Giv'ati Brigade

Sheva' Brigade

Har'el Brigade

Arab Unit(s)

Affected Villages

al-Latrun, Bayt Mahsir, Bayt Thul, Dayr Ayyub, Khirbat Bayt Far, Abu Shusha

Operation Makkabi was one of several small operations (Har'el, Yevussi, Makkabi, Ben-Nun, and Yoram) from mid-April into early June that aimed at occupying the strategic village of al-Latrun. Operation Makkabi resulted in the occupation of a number of other villages in the Jerusalem corridor, and Khirbat Bayt Far was probably among them.

Selected bibliography

Israeli Ministry of Defense. Toldot Milchemet ha-Qomemiyyut [The History of the War of Independence]. Tel Aviv: Marakhot, 1959, pp. 205-11.

Morris, Benny. The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem 1947-1949. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1978, p. 75, 113.