This Day in History: Operation Peace for Galilee Begins
On this day, 37 years ago, Menachem Begin ordered the start of Operation Peace for Galilee.
- דבי רייכמן
- פורסם י"ד סיון התשע"ט
The First Lebanon War (Photo: Flash90) #VALUE!
Following the events of "Black September," tensions escalated along the southern Lebanon border. Terror organizations had established a presence there, and attacks on Israel became routine. As these incidents increased, there was growing pressure on the government to launch a military campaign in Lebanon to stop these organizations.
On the 11th of Sivan, 5742, an Israeli embassy worker in Paris, Yaakov Barsimantov, was murdered, and simultaneously, there was an assassination attempt on the Israeli ambassador to the UK, Shlomo Argov. Israel responded to these events by bombing PLO facilities in Lebanon, to which the PLO retaliated with rocket fire on Israel.
On the 14th of Sivan, then-Prime Minister Menachem Begin decided to go to war. The operation was named "Operation Peace for Galilee," which later became known as "The First Lebanon War."
