campaign, Cold War

Operation Yevusi

Name: Operation Yevusi
Location: Jerusalem, Israel

Operation Yevusi was a campaign fought in 1948 at Jerusalem, in what is now Israel. Its exact site is not recorded; the atlas places it at Jerusalem. It was part of the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine, which ran from 1947 to 1948. The recorded result: Inconclusive: Ceasefire imposed by the British army. Recorded strength: Two brigades against unknown.

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Fought1948

WhereJerusalem, Israel31.777N, 35.234E, placed at the location, approximate

OutcomeInconclusive: Ceasefire imposed by the British army

BelligerentsYishuv; 15px Haganah; 15px Palmach; 15px Etzioni Brigade; 15px Harel BrigadeagainstArab Higher Committee; Army of the Holy War; 15px Arab Liberation Army; 15px Arab Legion; Irregulars: Local Arabs; '; Mandatory Palestine

Casualties and lossesOver 70andOver 80

Part of1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine1947 to 1948

Where it sits in the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine

4 placed engagements of the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine in time order; taller ticks are more widely documented. Each tick is a link.

Record

Date	1948 (year precision) to 1948
Place	Jerusalem, Israel 31.777N, 35.234E
Kind	Campaign, Cold War
Territorial change	Katamon captured by the Palmach
Strength	Two brigades	unknown
Casualties and losses	Over 70	Over 80
Commanders	Yitzhak Sadeh	Gordon MacMillan

Placed at Jerusalem; 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

Siege of Jerusalem AD 70, 0.2 km NE
Siege of Jerusalem 597 BC, 0.4 km W
Battle of Jerusalem AD 66, 0.5 km NW
Battle of Jerusalem 1917, 0.6 km W
Operation Kilshon date unknown, 1.1 km NW

In the same war

Before: Battle of Haifa 21 April 1948
All 4 engagements of 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine

Elsewhere in 1948

Combat data (CDB90)

	Attacker: IS RGT	Defender: JOR RGT
Strength	3,000	3,600
Casualties	375 (12.5%)	500 (13.9%)
Outcome	drawn
Duration	2 days
Front width	10 km

From the US Army Concepts Analysis Agency Database of Battles (CDB90, battle 655), 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 Yevusi 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 Q2907080, released under CC0. Result, belligerents, commanders, strength and casualties from the infobox of the English Wikipedia article Operation Yevusi, revision 1370700982, 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.