Notes of meeting with Mr Tabori and Gershon Ritov

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Ritov was the senior member of the Tirat Tzvi settlement; Tabori may be Zvi Tabori (1921-1992), later a member of LeHI.

Ritov recalls operations from Tirat Zvi, describes a planned ambush of a gang crossing the Jordan, Wingate led patrols from the front; initial lack of trust of Wingate; attack on Mejedda, which followed the death of two settlers, Wingate planned countermeasures, captured a number of guerillas, and this led to British authorities changing their attitude to him.

Wingate ran a course for officers and sergeants at Ein Harod. Another account of the Tiberias attack.

Confirms that Wingate did punish Arabs he suspected had damaged the pipeline; Wingate would collect together Arab villagers and read out extracts from the Tanakh, about refraining from violence and respecting property which were then translated into Arabic. He forced some individuals to undertake runs , and made some suspects rub oil-soaked sand into their skin. Confirm that SNS operations were effectively ended by the Macdonald White Paper in 1939. Later instructed settlement at Tel Hai on use of bren guns.