![]() When the Arab armies invaded in 1948 to squash the nascent Jewish entity, they were, in many cases, armed with wartime British and American weapons left in Northern Africa after the surrender of the German Afrikakorps. Ever since the birth of Israel, (sometimes heavily) modified American MBTs formed the backbone of the Israeli armored might until the appearance of the first Israeli truly indigenous MBT, the Merkava.Įven the first tank Israel obtained in large quantities was originally American – we are, of course, talking about the Sherman. The history of the Israeli MBTs is inevitably tied to the United States of America or, more specifically, to their tank production. This month in our Branch of the Month series, we’ll be focusing on Sol Schreiber’s Israeli MBT line. ![]()
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