What tactical settlement strategy utilized between 1936 and 1939 established over 50 fortified Jewish agricultural outposts overnight in response to security challenges during the Arab revolt?
Answer and explanation
Correct answer: C. Tower and Stockade (Homa U'Migdal)
- Step 1: Under Ottoman building law maintained by the British Mandate, any completed building with a roof could not be demolished without a court order.
- Step 2: Pioneers prefabricated wooden watchtowers with searchlights and gravel-filled double wooden stockade walls, assembling entire fortified settlements in a single night from dusk to dawn.
Answer
Tower and Stockade (Homa U'Migdal).
Why not the others: Gush Emunim was an ideological settlement movement founded in 1974; the Kibbutz movement began in 1910; Nahal was an IDF military-agricultural brigade formed after 1948.
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