 200 days of dread

The 200 days of dread (; ) was a period of 200 days in the history of the Yishuv in British Palestine, from the spring of 1942 to November 1942, when the German Afrika Korps under the command of General Erwin Rommel was heading east toward the Suez Canal and Palestine.The question of whether the Yishuv would need to defend itself against a possible German invasion rose twice during the Second World War.