October 2, 1938 Massacre at Tiberias
βArabs broke into Tiberias town one night and massacred a number of Jewish women and children in circumstance of great brutalityβ¦ it took us two hours to get to Tiberias, instead of the normal twenty-five minutes, and we found matters there in a mess. The district office, a synagogue, and several Jewish dwelling-houses were in flames, the streets were littered with dead but the attackers had withdrawn.β
Source: A Crackle of Thorns: Experiences in the Middle East by Alec Seath Kirkbride Published in Great Britain by John Murray Ltd in 1956, p. 105