At the end of Israel's War of Independence Operation Horev was a large scale attack against the Egyptian army in the Western Negev. Its objective was to trap the Egyptian Army in the Gaza Strip. The operation started on December 22, 1948 and ended on January 7, 1949, after the British threatened to intervene.
The name is that given in Scripture for Mount Sinai where the Jews encamped for a year in biblical times (Exodus 3:1 and Psalms 106:19), now the modern range called the Jebel Musa ("Mount of Moses" in Arabic).
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