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Small numbers of Israeli forces are able …

Years: 1948 - 1948
June

Small numbers of Israeli forces are able to keep Egyptian, Iraqi, and Transjordanian units from entering Tel Aviv and cutting off Jerusalem from the rest of the newly founded country during the crucial first month of the war.

Count Bernadotte obtains the grudging acceptance by the Arab states and Israel of a UN cease-fire order, effective June 11.

The nearly exhausted Israelis re-equip themselves, sometimes from secret sources.

Notable is the clandestine effort by Soviet-dominated Czechoslovakia, which offers Israel both arms and an airfield—Soviet leader Joseph Stalin has decided that the Jewish state might be a useful thorn in the side of Britain and the United States, his Cold War enemies.

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