(Ha'aretz) Yuval Azoulay - 58 years ago, Lippa Katz of Kibbutz Givat Brenner buried barrels packed with weapons stolen from the British army in a 3-meter-deep hole to hide them. On Sunday, the hiding place was uncovered, revealing 48 Sten guns and Canadian rifles, 14 machine guns, 136 hand grenades, and thousands of rounds of ammunition. Katz and his comrades cunningly removed this large quantity of munitions from the British air force base at Tel Nof by concealing the arms under piles of refuse in a garbage wagon. Until his dying day, decades after the establishment of the state, Lippa guarded the secret location of the cache, saying he had sworn to Haganah commanders Yitzhak Sadeh and Israel Galili that he would never disclose its location without their permission.
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