Appendix C: Text of Plan Dalet: Operational Orders to the Brigades

Key takeaways

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Reading notes

• In addition to the Palmach brigades, it was decided that six brigades based on the Field Force should be established:

• Brigade A: Golani, in the Galilee

• Made of five battalions; 11, 12,13,14,15 charged with closing the enemy's primary access road from the country's borders and from the direction of the central Galilee, Nazareth, Tubas, Gilbo'a Mountains etc

• Brigade B: Carmeli, in Haifa

• Made of three battalions; 21, 22, 23 charged with the following: closing the primary access route from the Lebanese border and from the direction of Tarshiha, take control of the road and railroad of Haifa

• Brigade C: Alexandroni, in the Sharon plain

• Made up of four battalions; 31, 32, 33, 34 was charged with the following: preventing the enemy from approaching from the direction of Mt. Carmel, also entrusted with occupying twenty villages in enemy territory for the sake of establishing a long-term defence

• Brigade D: Kiryati, in Tel Aviv

• Made of two battalions; 41, 42 charged with the following: occupying the quarter of al-Manshiyyah and directing a decisive blow to the city of Jaffa and blockading them inside their areas, so that no one will dare emerge from them

• Brigade E: Giv'ati, in the Shefela region

• Made of four battalions; 51, 52, 53, 54 charged with the following: closing the enemy route advance on Tel Aviv from east and the south and taking control of the Tel Aviv-Negev road and taking control of Lydda airport but primarily taking the British army barracks in Sarafard

• Brigade F: 'Etzioni Brigade, in Jerusalem district

• Made of three battalions; 61, 62, 63: closing the primary access road from the directions of Ramallah, Jericho, and Hebron, occupy two British security zones- B and C in Jerusalem and outside the city, take control of the eastern part of the Jerusalem-Tel Aviv road by occupying villages and the heights in al-Qastal, water pumping stations and also occupy the airport neat 'Atarot and impose a siege on Bethlehem, Bayt Jala, and Hebron

• The first brigade was to station itself in Jerusalem, the second in the area of Motza-'Artuf-al-Latrun and the third was divided into four sub-groups