1938 Tiberias pogrom
1938 CE.
Shown on the map at 32.789°, 35.524°.
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. The death toll led the incident to be described as the "worst since the Hebron onslaught in 1929". Attackers entered the city from both north and south, cut communication lines and attacked government buildings, as well as the community's synagogue and homes. After infiltrating the Jewish Kiryat Shmuel neighbourhood, Arab rioters killed 19 Jews in Tiberias, 11 of whom were children. During the massacre, 70 armed Arabs set fire to Jewish homes and the local synagogue. In one house a mother and her five children ages one to twelve were killed, while their father was guarding another part of the city. Families were found shot or stabbed and burned to death. The old beadle in the synagogue was stabbed to death. At the time of the attack there were only 15 Jewish guards in the neighborhood of over 2,000 people. The coast of the Sea of Galilee remained unguarded, for it was the least expected direction for an attack.
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