Six hundred and twenty is no small number.
True. Every loss in the population of a country almost the size of New Jersey is worse in proportion than in big countries.
Some of the strategies in the many Arab Israeli Wars was about getting Israel to lose more of a percentage of their total population.
Book The Arab-Israeli Wars by Chaim Herzog.
https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/the-arab-israeli-wars-war-and-peace-in-the-middle-east—from-the-war-of-independence-through-lebanon_chaim-herzog/542373/#
“Six hundred and twenty is no small number.”
For Russia losing 620 men in one day is a good day.
Thank God the Israelis don’t squander their people like that!
I’m Shocked at that number.