campaign, notable, Cold War

Operation Hiram

Name: Operation Hiram
Location: Upper Galilee, Israel

Operation Hiram was a campaign fought in 1948 at Upper Galilee, in what is now Israel. Its exact site is not recorded; the atlas places it at Upper Galilee. It was part of ethnic cleansing in Palestine. The recorded result: Israeli victory. Recorded strength: 6,000 against 2,000–4,000.

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Fought1948

WhereUpper Galilee, Israel33.029N, 35.329E, placed at the location, approximate

OutcomeIsraeli victory

BelligerentsIsrael; 7th Armoured Brigade; Carmeli Brigade; Golani Brigade; Oded Brigade; Circassian Unit; 22px|border Druze Unitagainst23px Arab Liberation Army; Syria; Lebanon

Casualties and lossesLightand400 killed; 550 captured

Part ofethnic cleansing in Palestine

Where it sits in ethnic cleansing in Palestine

3 placed engagements of ethnic cleansing in Palestine in time order; taller ticks are more widely documented. Each tick is a link.

Record

Date	1948 (year precision) to 1948
Place	Upper Galilee, Israel 33.029N, 35.329E
Kind	Campaign, Cold War
Territorial change	Upper Galilee and part of Southern Lebanon incorporated into Israel
Strength	6,000	2,000–4,000
Casualties and losses	Light	400 killed; 550 captured; 50,000 Palestinian refugees
Commanders	Moshe Carmel	Fawzi al-Qawuqji

Placed at Upper Galilee; the exact site is not recorded. with the nearest other engagements in the atlas. Present-day coastlines, rivers and borders; towns from Natural Earth.

Nearest engagements

Sa'sa' Massacre 1948, 6.1 km E
Fall of Montfort Castle 1271, 9.8 km W
Siege of Gush Halav AD 67, 11 km E
Al-Kabri incident 1948, 17 km W
Siege of the Western Galilee 1947, 18 km W

In the same war

Before: Operation Yoav 1948
All 3 engagements of ethnic cleansing in Palestine

Elsewhere in 1948

Combat data (CDB90)

	Attacker: IS DIV	Defender: SYR RGT
Strength	6,000	6,000
Casualties	650 (10.8%)	2,100 (35.0%)
Duration	2 days
Front width	3 km

From the US Army Concepts Analysis Agency Database of Battles (CDB90, battle 640), public domain, in the CC0 tidy edition by Jeffrey B. Arnold. Figures are the database's estimates, compiled in 1990 from published histories, and may differ from the Wikipedia infobox above.

Operation Hiram is one of 4,429 engagements of the 20th century in the atlas and one of 179 in present-day Israel.

Sources

Identity, coordinates, dates and the war from Wikidata Q2915580, released under CC0. Result, belligerents, commanders, strength and casualties from the infobox of the English Wikipedia article Operation Hiram, revision 1384295102, read 2026-11-15, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0; the article's text is not reproduced here. Present-day country and state from Natural Earth. Dates before 1582 follow the Julian calendar as recorded.