The renewed discussion of the capture of Tantura during the War of Independence is aimed at correcting a historic injustice for which the responsible parties include the courts, historians and elderly soldiers. All of the above joined forces around a quarter of a century ago in an effort to silence any attempt to discuss the war crimes that, according to testimony from both soldiers and victims, were committed in May 1948. The tragic hero of this story is Teddy Katz, who, as a student of history at the University of Haifa in the 1990s, collected evidence which led him to the conclusion that Je