Unit of the Minorities
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The Unit of the Minorities was an Arabic-speaking unit of the Israel Defense Forces in the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. The unit was attached to the Oded Brigade and fought in Operation Hiram in October 1948.
The unit was formed in the early summer of 1948. It consisted mainly of Druze defectors from the Arab Liberation Army and small numbers of Bedouin and Circassians.
References
- Parsons, Laila (2001). The Druze and the birth of Israel. In Eugene L. Rogan and Avi Shalim (Eds.). The War for Palestine (pp. 60-78). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0521794765
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