Operation Olive Leaves

Operation Olive Leaves
Part of the Retribution operations (during Palestinian Fedayeen insurgency)
Ariel Sharon (left), overall commander of Operation Olive Leaves, consults with Aharon Davidi (center), commander of the 771 Reserve Paratroop Battalion and Company Commander Yitzchak Ben Menachem (right), who was killed during the assault.
Date December 10–11, 1955 Location North-Eastern shoreline of the Sea of Galilee (Kinneret) Result Israeli victory
Belligerents
Israel	Syria
Commanders and leaders
Ariel Sharon Rafael Eitan Aharon Davidi Meir Har-Zion Yitzchack Ben Menachem †
Casualties and losses
6 killed 10 wounded	54 killed 30 captured

Operation Olive Leaves (Hebrew: מבצע עלי זית, Mivtza ʿAlei Zayit) also known as Operation Kinneret (the Hebrew name for the Sea of Galilee) was an Israeli reprisal operation undertaken on December 10–11, 1955, against fortified Syrian emplacements near the north-eastern shores of the Sea of Galilee. The raid was prompted by repeated Syrian attacks on Israeli fishing in the Sea of Galilee.^[1][2] The successful operation resulted in the destruction of the Syrian emplacements. The Syrians also sustained fifty-four killed in action. Another thirty were taken prisoner. There were six IDF fatalities.^[3]