Plan Dalet

Plan Dalet, or Plan D, (in Hebrew, dalet is the fourth letter, similar to "d" in English), was a plan that the Haganah in Palestine worked out during autumn 1947 to spring 1948. The purpose of the plan was, according to its Jewish planners, a contingency plan for defending a Jewish state from invasion. MidEast Web

Related Topics:
Hebrew - Haganah - Palestine - 1947 - 1948

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According to Hagana intelligence chief, Yitzhak Levi, Plan D was primarily defensive in nature, and this appears to be so from the text. MidEast Web

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According to some Palestinian sources it was a plan with the purpose of conquering as much of Palestine as possible (Plan Dalet: Master Plan for the Conquest of Palestine, Walid, Khalidi, for example). They believe that first step of the plan was initiated in April when Operation Nachshon, was launched to relieve the Arab seige of Jerusalem. Operation Nachshon was the first large scale Hagannah operation and thus many view it as a part of Plan D. However, Yitzhak Levi, head of the Jerusalem Shai (Hagannah intelligence service) did not include operation Nachshon in his account of the implementation of Plan D in his book, Nine Measures (in Hebrew, Tish'a Kabin). MidEast Web

Related Topics:
Operation Nachshon

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