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{{Short description|Israeli politician and businessman}}
{{For|other people with the same name|Gad Machnes (disambiguation){{!}}Gad Machnes}}
'''Gad Machnes''' ({{Langx|he|גד מכנס}}; 13 August 1893 – 7 March 1954) was an Israeli politician and businessman. He was an [[oriental studies|orientalist]] in the Arab Affairs Department at the [[Jewish Agency]] as part of the [[Palestine (region)|Palestine]] Jewish ''[[Yishuv]]'' during the [[Mandatory Palestine|British Mandate of Palestine]].

Machnes was born and raised in [[Petah Tikva]] and participated in Jewish pioneering efforts prior to Israeli independence. He was a member of the third transformation of the Israeli Transfer committee from August 1948 renamed as the Committee for Arab affairs along with [[Yosef Weitz]], [[Ezra Danin]], Yaacov Shimoni and Zalman Lifshiz.<ref>Pappé, Ilan, (reprint 2007) ibid pp 211-213</ref> He became the Israeli Minority Affairs Ministry director general, Tel Aviv, in 1949.<ref>Black, Ian Contributor Morris, Benny (1991) Israel's Secret Wars: A History of Israel's Intelligence Services Grove Weidenfeld, {{ISBN|0-8021-3286-3}} p 537</ref><ref>Pappé, Ilan, (reprint 2007) The ethnic cleansing of Palestine, Oneworld Publications Limited, {{ISBN|978-1-85168-467-0}} p 63</ref> The Village files are still censored.<ref>Rotberg, Robert I. (2006) Israeli and Palestinian Narratives of Conflict: History's Double Helix Indiana University Press, {{ISBN|0-253-21857-8}} p 98</ref><ref>Morris, Benny, (second edition 2004 third printing 2006) The Birth Of The Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited, Cambridge University Press, {{ISBN|0-521-00967-7}} pp 83-84</ref><ref>Pappé, Ilan (Revised 1994) The Making of the Arab-Israeli Conflict 1947-1951 I B Tauris {{ISBN|1-85043-819-6}} p 82</ref> [[Benei Binyamin]], [[Petah Tikva]], Hanotea, [[Netanya]].<ref>Karlinsky, Nahum (2005) California Dreaming: Ideology, Society, and Technology in the Citrus Industry of Palestine, 1890-1939 Translated by Naftali Greenwood, SUNY Press, {{ISBN|0-7914-6527-6}} p 76</ref> Machnes was intimately involved with the Israeli government regularisation of the systematic appropriation of Abandoned Arab property and Transfer policy of the Yishuv.<ref>Gelber, Yoav (2006) Palestine 1948: War, Escape and the Emergence of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Sussex Academic Press, {{ISBN|1-84519-075-0}} pp 274-275</ref><ref>Pappé, Ilan, (reprint 2007) The ethnic cleansing of Palestine, Oneworld Publications Limited, {{ISBN|978-1-85168-467-0}} p 63</ref> Machnes was one of [[David Ben-Gurion]]'s most Hawkish advisers during the [[1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine]] and the following [[1948 Arab–Israeli War]].<ref>Lucas, Noah (1995) Israel: The First Decade of Independence Contributor Selwyn Ilan Troen SUNY Press, {{ISBN|0-7914-2259-3}} p 645</ref>

Machnes has streets named after him in [[Netanya]] and [[Petah Tikva]].<ref>{{coord|32|19|42.01|N|34|50|58.68|E|type:landmark_region:IL}}. Amelie Cherlin, Inc. Let's Go, Let's Go, Inc., Risha Kim Lee, Janet Evanovich (2002) Let's Go 2003: Israel: Israel Macmillan, {{ISBN|0-312-30580-X}} p 212</ref> Footballer [[Gad Machnes (footballer)|Gad Machnes]], the son of his brother Yitzhak, was named for him.

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