Moshe Shertok, head of the Jewish Agency’s political department, today telegraphed to Major-General Archibald P. Wavell, commander of British forces in the Middle East: “Your brilliant victory is bound to influence the whole course of the war and hasten the ultimate triumph of British arms.”
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