1938 Tiberias massacre

This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict.The Tiberias massacre took place on 2 October 1938, during the 1936–39 Arab revolt in Tiberias, then located in the British Mandate of Palestine and today located in the State of Israel.

[2] After infiltrating the Jewish Kiryat Shmuel neighbourhood, Arab rioters killed 19 Jews in Tiberias, 11 of whom were children.

[1] During the massacre, 70 armed Arabs set fire to Jewish homes and the local synagogue.

Of the nineteen Jews killed, including women and children, all save four were stabbed to death.

[5] After the massacre, the Irgun proposed a joint retaliatory operation with Haganah to deter such events, but the latter group did not agree.