way to the mosque, but Almajali thought it was too dangerous and ordered soldiers to surround the King–angering him. The King moved ahead of his guards, and was shot dead by a Palestinian. King Hussein found Almajali valuable after he was responsible for tracking down his Nasserite enemies during the upheavals of the 1950s. Almajali was tasked in 1960 with restoring order after Syrian agents had murdered his cousin Prime Minister Hazza' Majali. Jordan lost the West Bank to Israel during the 1967 Six Day War. Almajali was forced during the war to relinquish Jordan's army command to Egypt. He then resigned, but served as defense minister until 1968. Almajali was appointed as Chief of Staff of the army in 1970, to supervise the expulsion of Palestinian fedayeen (guerrillas) from Jordan during what became known as Black September. On the Yom Kippor War in 1973, Trevor N. Dupuy, an American historian, later wrote that Israelis were impressed by "Jordanian tactical performance, evidencing higher professional standards than the Syrians or the Iraqis". During the last 20 years of his life, he resigned from the army and served as Senator in the Jordanian Parliament's upper chamber. Honour Foreign honour : Honorary Commander of the Order of the Defender of the Realm (1965) References 1914 births 2001 deaths Jordanian generals Jordanian people of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War Members of the Senate of Jordan Defence ministers of Jordan