Event · Fire
Ramat Yishai textile factory fire
Marauding Arabs set the textile factory ablaze on August 30, 1938, killing one Jewish settler.
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... Between 1936-38, the period of Arab uprisings, the
small colony heroically defended itself, repelling Arab
attacks on several occasions. But on August 30, 1938,
the textile factory was set aflame by marauding Arabs,
killing one Jewish settler who defended the village. ...Connected nodes