May 28, 1948


DUST AND STARS--TODAY IN JEWISH HISTORY (Abridged)

May 28, 1948:
After weeks of desperate fighting by local residents, Etzel members and about 80 Haganah soldiers who were outnumbered and out-gunned by the Arab forces, it was decided to surrender the Old City of Jerusalem to Jordan and save the lives of the 2,000 mostly elderly Jews still living there.

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