From Aleppo to Tel Hai: The events of Tel Hai and the new order in Greater Syria in 1919-1920

Abstract

ABSTRACT The study of the 1920 Tel Hai incident from a purely local perspective does not provide an accurate, in-depth explanation for the outbreak of violence in the Huleh Valley. This article contextualizes this incident within the events occurring in Syria and Lebanon during 1919–1920. It does so in order to understand the extent to which the Tel Hai incident was a local event, related to the Zionist-Palestinian conflict, or part of waves of violence that had spread over large areas of Syria, Lebanon, and Palestine.