Summary
Prominent Mapam leader who, in Manna’s account, met League secretary Fu’ad Nassar, defended special treatment for League men, and commented on the importance of the Czech arms (Nakba and Survival, PDF p.129-130, 135).
Details
- Cohen commented on Czech arms: a severe March 1948 shortage was overcome by the first Czech plane carrying munitions to a secret Jewish airfield (Nakba and Survival, PDF p.129).
- Nassar met Cohen in Tawfiq Tubi’s Haifa house at the beginning of 1948 and kept contact with him through messengers while in Gaza and the West Bank (Nakba and Survival, PDF p.130).
- Cohen put forward a defiant defence of continuing special treatment for League men in Haifa and Nazareth (Nakba and Survival, PDF p.135).
- On the eve of the Israeli attack on the Egyptian army, Abba Kovner wrote to Cohen asking for a copy of the communist leaflet to Arab soldiers for use in Israeli psychological warfare (Nakba and Survival, PDF p.139).
Related pages
Nakba and Survival, Mapam, Fu’ad Nassar, Czechoslovak arms deal