 The Hebrew term "200 days of dread" was coined only later by the contemporary journalist Haviv Canaan, as taken from the title of his 1974 book on this period.In 1941–42 the Haganah was preparing a last stand in the event that the British would retreat from the German army as far as Syria and Iraq.The "Plan of the North" was also called "Masada on the Carmel", and "Haifa–Masada–Musah Dag".