The Convoy of 35 (or the Lamed Hey, which stands for "thirty five" in Hebrew numerals) was a convoy of Haganah men who were ambushed and killed by Arabs during an attempt to resupply the blockaded kibbutzim of Gush Etzion on January 16, 1948, after earlier convoys had been attacked.
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