Dec 7, 2022
At the beginning of the War of Independence Israel was vastly
outnumbered and did not had sufficient weapons to defend herself.
In those initial weeks before weapons began to arrive, primarily
form Czechoslovakia, it was only the daring and ingenuity of lone
Israeli soldiers coupled with industrial helpings of Divine
Providence that enabled Israel to hold on. Ron Feller is one such
hero who single-handedly took on and defeated an entire Egyptian
mechanized platoon.
Swedish diplomat Count Folk Bernadotte was chosen to be the United
Nations Security Council mediator in Israel’s War of Independence.
Bernadotte labored to turn the cease-fire into a binding peace
treaty which he figured would earn him a Nobel Peace Prize. It
certainly earned him disdain.