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Jabotinsky identified with liberal democratic ideas, and the free market, but did not reject state-sponsored development and settlement projects; Ben-Gurion called himself a socialist but did not reject private enterprise. He was really a social democrat. Jabotinsky’s movement attracted many workers, and many members of the middle class supported B

Lydda is a case in point. Jerusalem, under Jordanian attack, was barely hanging on in the summer of 1948, and Ben-Gurion was now determined to open another road to the city. To do so, the military brass determined that it needed to capture Lydda, an Arab city of some twenty thousand inhabitants. Situated along the route from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem,