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Fear not, Nor be Dismayed,' is Israel's Motto Today

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a section of German tanks has swung round this way,
hoping to get our side in the rear."

Youths Plan Strategy

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They both fell silent, busily thinking out a scheme.
Then, in low, unhurried tones, the two young Jewish
lads, slim and athletic, the finest whom their people
in Eretz Israel had to offer, made their plan. The truck
was to go back with the driver and four men. They
would try to contact a British mobile patrol—they had
seen one a few miles back—and to warn the other five
trucks of their platoon lying five miles back, not to
come forward until the situation had been cleared up.
While the truck was going back, the lieutenant
and the remaining five men would engage the party
in front.

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Plenty of Action

"I think you had better take charge of the truck
and I'll go forward," the lieutenant said. The sergeant
interrupted quickly. "I would much rather stay with
you," he objected. "if this is going to be a scrap." The
officer smiled and gripped the other's arm. "Don't
worry. You'll have plenty of action going back. And
don't forget what the truck carries. We can't let it
fall to the enemy."
The sergeant counted off five, who crawled for-
ward to join the officer; the rest stood by the truck,
each knowing his position, ready _to take off at the
signal.
The lieutenant pointed out the shallow gully lead-
ing to the left from the bottom of the fold in which
they lay. Swiftly he outlined his plan.
They set off, easing their way carefully along the
gully which was a bare four feet deep, and on guard
against showing their heads.
Bernstein, meanwhile, in pantomime gestures point-
ed out to his half section the spots where they were
to take shelter. They would be about 25 yards apart in
a kind of spearhead formation, a device which would
prove baffling to their adversaries in attempting to get
the range.
Harari shifted an aching foot, which had gone almost
rigid from the strain of crouching, and glanced at his
watch. A minute to go.

Bible by Heart

There is one thing about Palestinian Jews—they
all know the Bible by heart. To them it is their history
and geography manual, their philosophy, their source
of pride, their guide to better living. And, knowing the
Five Books and the rest of the Scriptures as thorough-
ly as they did, it was no wonder that they derived
from it not only inspiration for a code of general be-
havior, but also the principles of martial valor. The
vivid accounts of Jewish militant prowess in the dim
long ago live more clearly in the minds of young
Palestinian Jews than any other period in the long-
remembered history of their- people. •
To Palestinian Jews, bred in the courage and ever-
present knowledge of the territorial past of their
people, the so-called Old Testament, the Tanach-
Torah, Nevi'im and Ketuim, or Pentateuch, Prophets
and Apocrypha—was their mainstay.

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Why was he thinking now so deeply of the Scrip-
tures? That was part of the tenets of his convictions,
he reflected. Strange that he had never thought that
way before. To know the Tanach was so much a part
of the background of Palestinian lives that they hardly
pondered upon it, any more than they wondered why
the human animal had five fingers and five toes. But
the stark auterity of army life, the need to single out
some higher purpose for inward meditation, inevitably
led to such cogitation.

Zero Hour!

The five minutes were up. Running forward, bent
forward, bent double, Harari reached the truck. Its
engine roared into life. Simultaneously came the
opening shot from the remainder of their party.
Harari and his four men looked back for a moment.
They would dearly have loved to have remained to
fight it out.
The first shot fired by Bernstein's party came from
the lance-corporal at his left. The range was 300 yards
due north. Bernstein, his tin helmet hardly visible
above the ridge of the gully, saw the spurt of gravelly
soil about a yard in front of the suspected enemy
observation post. He smiled. "A near miss," he thotight.
"Jolly good shooting." He flashed back an approving
look at his lance-corporal and signalled the next man.
Up came the rifle—this time there was a howl. First
blOod.
The enemy was not slow in answering. "They must
be Germans," Bernstein thought. "No Italian could
have endured the suspense more than a few minutes.
They would have surrendered."

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Five Rifles Fire

The enemy advanced cautiously, wriggling forward
almost by inches. Then, when they reached the two
hundred yards, they paused. Bernstein raised his hand
again. Almost as though by a single automaton, the five
rifles spat out around- him. Two of the enemy leapt up,
staggered and fell. Another, his nerve gone, got up and
crouched as though ready to run back. Hillelson
downed him with another shot. The remaining two lay
there, fearful of any movement.
And then, behind them, they heard the welcome
sound of motors. That must be the patrol. Harari had
not failed them. Bernstein looked at his men. They
smiled back. Relief was coming. But Ben Shmuel was
determined to get his- men. He raised himself and fired
at one of the figures lying 200 yards ahead.. The shot
Bullet Halts "Shadow"
apparently just fell wide. But the enemy scout had
He motioned to his men to keep low. If the enemy
seen the movement. He fired back. Ben Shmuel bit his
had tommy-guns they were not giving it away yet.
lip and fell back. Bernstein glanced at him swiftly, and
Two riflemen were answering. Their firing showed
the lad raised his right hand, pointing at the left arm.
that they could not get the range. He had spread his
He had been hit in the arm. He smiled, shaking his
men out fanwise to good effect, neutralizing their
head at the proffered assistance:
efforts. But they might try other tactics: A wriggling
The next ten minutes were hectic. Up came the
shadow drew his attention. One man was trying to get
British armored cars, and an officer waved at Bern-
a better spot, a mound which might offer better ob- . stein. They went on, spattering the bush .witk machine-
servation. He turned to the man at his right and point-
gun fire, and raced towards the German tanks in the
ed. The rifle spat, and the shadow wriggled no more.
distance. The enemy scouts came up only four were
Bernstein glanced at his watch. Eleven-thirty. They
left—their hands raised in surrender. In half an hour
had been at it for half an hour. Well, the first half an
Harari returned. Meanwhile Bernstein had roughly
hour was always the worst. It was more like eternity
bandaged Ben Shmuel's arm—only a flesh wound,
than 30 minutes. If their luck held, the truck would
fortunately. He gripped Ben Shmuel's shoulder en-
meet the armored car patrol in the first 15 minutes.
couragingly. The lad had not even winced as the rough
field dressing had been tightened.
Hope, Then Despair
"What were you thinking of as we lay there, Ben
They lay there for another thirty minutes, now and
Shmuel?" his young officer asked.
then firing to keep the enemy at a distance. The enemy
There was a far-away lobk in the lad's eye. He said,
sent over a few shots. Bernstein wondered why they .
"You remember that passage in Joshua, sir, in the
did not make a more definite move. Probably he
tenth chapter after they took the five kings out of the
thought, they were only a scouting party and were
cave at Makkedah and brought them before Joshua?"
waiting for their main body to move up. Perhaps noon
Lieut. Bernstein nodded. The lad went on:
was their zero hour. Well, he hoped that the British
" 'And Joshua said unto them, Fear not, nor be dis-
armored cars got there first.
mayed, be strong and of good courage; for thus shall
A cloud of dust on the horizon attracted his atten-
the Lord do to all your enemies against whom ye fight.'
tion. He felt for his glasses and trained them on the
That's the motto of Israel today, sir." •

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spot. The smudge grew larger. His heart sank. They
were German light tanks, much like the swift British
armored cars. That must be the main body for whom
the Germans there were waiting. He caught a, move-
ment among the enemy lying beneath the bush. They,
too, had seen. He called softly to his lance-corporal
and explained. Any attempt at signaling must be
scotched. Fire at the least movement.
Hillelson nodded. He pointed at the enemy party.
There was a swift flicker going on. They were using
a heliograph. Hillelson bent down and sighted care-
fully. A crack, and then the light went out. That
meant three of the enemy gone. They must have been
ten in number.
The lance-corporal stiffened. Bernstein looked for-
ward quickly. Fiive men were creeping forward from
the bush. The lieutenant turned and motioned rapidly,
ordering each man to select a target.

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