1948 Palestinian exodus from Lydda and Ramle July the IDF appointed Yigal Allon to head the operation, and Yitzhak Rabin, who became Israel's prime minister in 1974, as his operations officer; both had served in the Palmach, an elite fighting force of the pre-Israel Jewish community in Palestine. The operation was carried out between 9 July 1948, the end of the first truce in the Arab-Israeli war, and 18 July, the start of the second truce, a period known in Israeli historiography as the Ten Days. Morris writes that the IDF assembled its largest force ever: the Yiftach brigade; the Eighth Armored Brigade's 82nd and 89th Battalions;
Dalia Rabin-Pelossof Dalia Rabin-Pelossof Dalia Rabin-Pelossof (, born 19 March 1950) is a former Israeli politician. The daughter of former Prime Minister and Minister of Defense Yitzhak Rabin, she served as a member of the Knesset for the Centre Party, New Way and the Labor Party between 1999 and 2003. Born in 1950, Rabin-Pelossof gained an LLB and worked as an attorney. For the 1999 elections she was placed sixth on the Centre Party list, and entered the Knesset as the party won six seats. She was appointed chairwoman of the Ethics Committee. On 6 March 2001 she and two other Centre