Operation Yiftach
E169923
Operation Yiftach was a 1948 Haganah military campaign in the Upper Galilee aimed at securing the area and its roads for the nascent State of Israel during the Arab–Israeli War.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Operation Yiftach canonical | 1 |
| מבצע יפתח | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1399193 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Operation Yiftach Context triple: [Haganah, notableOperation, Operation Yiftach]
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A.
Operation Raviv
Operation Raviv was a 1969 Israeli commando raid during the War of Attrition in which Israeli forces, using captured Egyptian equipment, struck targets along Egypt’s Red Sea coast.
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B.
Operation Nachshon
Operation Nachshon was an early 1948 Haganah offensive aimed at breaking the Arab blockade of the road to Jerusalem during the Arab–Israeli War.
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C.
Operation Jericho
Operation Jericho was a daring low-level Allied air raid in 1944 targeting Amiens Prison in German-occupied France to breach its walls and free Resistance prisoners.
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D.
Operation al-Fajr
Operation al-Fajr was the U.S.-led November 2004 offensive to retake the Iraqi city of Fallujah from insurgent forces during the Iraq War.
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E.
Operation Moses
Operation Moses was a covert 1984–1985 airlift that rescued and relocated thousands of Ethiopian Jews from famine and persecution in Sudan to Israel.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Operation Yiftach Target entity description: Operation Yiftach was a 1948 Haganah military campaign in the Upper Galilee aimed at securing the area and its roads for the nascent State of Israel during the Arab–Israeli War.
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A.
Operation Raviv
Operation Raviv was a 1969 Israeli commando raid during the War of Attrition in which Israeli forces, using captured Egyptian equipment, struck targets along Egypt’s Red Sea coast.
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B.
Operation Nachshon
Operation Nachshon was an early 1948 Haganah offensive aimed at breaking the Arab blockade of the road to Jerusalem during the Arab–Israeli War.
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C.
Operation Jericho
Operation Jericho was a daring low-level Allied air raid in 1944 targeting Amiens Prison in German-occupied France to breach its walls and free Resistance prisoners.
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D.
Operation al-Fajr
Operation al-Fajr was the U.S.-led November 2004 offensive to retake the Iraqi city of Fallujah from insurgent forces during the Iraq War.
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E.
Operation Moses
Operation Moses was a covert 1984–1985 airlift that rescued and relocated thousands of Ethiopian Jews from famine and persecution in Sudan to Israel.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Haganah operation
ⓘ
military operation ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Mivtza Yiftach
ⓘ
Operation Yiftach ⓘ
surface form:
מבצע יפתח
|
| belligerent |
Arab Liberation Army
ⓘ
Arab irregular forces ⓘ Haganah ⓘ
surface form:
Jewish Yishuv forces
|
| commander | Yigal Allon ⓘ |
| conflict |
Arab–Israeli War of 1948
ⓘ
surface form:
1948 Arab–Israeli War
|
| country | Israel ⓘ |
| endDate | 1948-05-23 ⓘ |
| executedBy |
Palmach
ⓘ
surface form:
Palmach First Battalion
Palmach ⓘ
surface form:
Palmach Third Battalion
|
| followedBy | Operation Dekel ⓘ |
| goal |
to capture Safed
ⓘ
to expel or neutralize Arab forces in the Upper Galilee ⓘ to secure roads and communication lines in the Upper Galilee ⓘ to secure the Upper Galilee for the nascent State of Israel ⓘ |
| historicalRegion | Galilee ⓘ |
| languageOfName | Hebrew ⓘ |
| location |
Mandatory Palestine
ⓘ
surface form:
British Mandate of Palestine
Safed ⓘ Safed subdistrict ⓘ Galilee ⓘ
surface form:
Upper Galilee
|
| militaryBranch |
Haganah
ⓘ
surface form:
Haganah ground forces
|
| namedAfter |
Jephthah
ⓘ
surface form:
Yiftach (biblical judge Jephthah)
|
| notableBattle | Battle for Safed (1948) ⓘ |
| participant |
Haganah
ⓘ
Palmach ⓘ |
| partOf | 1948 Palestine war ⓘ |
| plannedBy |
Haganah
ⓘ
surface form:
Haganah General Staff
|
| precededBy | Operation Yevusi ⓘ |
| relatedEvent | British withdrawal from the Safed area in 1948 ⓘ |
| relatedTo | Plan Dalet ⓘ |
| result |
Israeli control of most of the Upper Galilee
ⓘ
Israeli victory ⓘ capture of Safed by Jewish forces ⓘ depopulation of several Palestinian Arab villages in the Upper Galilee ⓘ flight and expulsion of many Arab inhabitants from the Safed area ⓘ |
| startDate | 1948-04-28 ⓘ |
| strategicImportance | securing the northern border area for the future State of Israel ⓘ |
| target |
Arab forces in and around Safed
ⓘ
Arab villages controlling access roads in the Upper Galilee ⓘ |
| theater | Northern front of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War ⓘ |
| timePeriod | April–May 1948 ⓘ |
| typeOfWarfare |
conventional ground offensive
ⓘ
urban warfare in Safed ⓘ village-clearing operations in rural areas ⓘ |
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Subject: Operation Yiftach Description of subject: Operation Yiftach was a 1948 Haganah military campaign in the Upper Galilee aimed at securing the area and its roads for the nascent State of Israel during the Arab–Israeli War.
Referenced by (2)
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this entity surface form:
מבצע יפתח