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Transfer Committee

Body to promote Palestinian displacement

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 7, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
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The Transfer Committee was established during the 1948 Palestine war by non-Cabinet members of the first government of Israel, with the aim of overseeing the expulsion of Palestinian Arabs from their towns and villages, and preventing their return. The extent to which the committee acted with the knowledge of the prime minister and the Cabinet is a matter of scholarly debate.

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“Transfer Committee” enters the record as body to promote Palestinian displacement. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Transfer, Committee and Body can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “Transfer Committee” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.