Who were the main supporters of Israel's army in the 1948 Arab-Israeli war?
The kibbutz people were the mainstay of Israel’s small ragtag army that defeated the Arabs in 1948. These were farming-community settlers, not professional soldiers, and they fought with small arms only, without tanks, artillery, or air power, establishing the nation again.
Les explains that the kibbutz people, the settlers of farming communities, were the mainstay of that little ragtag army that defeated the Arabs in 1948. They had no military acumen, no tanks, no artillery, and no air power, only small arms. Yet with the overhanding power of God they fought the war and established themselves as a little nation once again. This came after Jews escaping Europe were intercepted by the British Navy and interned on Cyprus, while those who got through built kibbutzes.