Abdullah Tal

Abdullah el Tell , ( , born 1918, Irbid ) served in the Transjordanian Arab Legion during the 1948 war in Palestine rising from the rank of company commander to become Military Governor of the Old City of Jerusalem . He was later accused of being involved in the assassination of King Abdullah I and spent many years in Egypt before returning to Jordan in 1967. Abdullah el Tell Abdullah el Tell was born into a prosperous family in Irbid just as the Ottoman army were retreating from the town. His mother held him up to the window to witness the soldiers leaving. His secondary education was in Egypt. When he was 18 years old he was jailed for demonstrating against the British. In 1941 he joined the British Army and in 1942 completed an officer training course in the Suez Canal area. It is not clear if this was in Egypt. Page 255: "became an orderly room clerk, prior to obtaining commission"

Abdullah el-Tell ( , 1918–1973) served in the Transjordanian Arab Legion during the 1948 war in Palestine rising from the rank of company commander to become Military Governor of the Old City of Jerusalem . He was later accused of being involved in the assassination of King Abdullah I and spent many years in Egypt before returning to Jordan in 1967. El-Tell was born into a wealthy family in Irbid just as the Ottoman army were retreating from the town. His mother held him up to the window to witness the soldiers leaving. His secondary education was in Egypt. When he was 18 years old, he was jailed for demonstrating against the British. In 1941, he joined the British Army and in 1942 completed an officer training course in the Suez Canal area. Collins, Larry & Lapierre, Dominique (1972) O Jerusalem! It is not clear if this was in Egypt.

Jordanian military commander (1918–1973) Abdullah El Tell ( , 17 July 1918 – 1973) served in the Transjordanian Arab Legion during the 1948 war in Palestine rising from the rank of company commander to become Military Governor of the Old City of Jerusalem . He was later accused of being involved in the assassination of King Abdullah I −which he denied−and spent many years in Egypt before returning to Jordan in 1967.

Jordanian military commander (1918–1973) Abdullah El Tell ( Arabic : عبدالله التل , 17 July 1918 – 1973; his surname is also rendered Tal ) was a Jordanian military officer . He served as the commander of the 6th regiment of Jordan's Arab Legion during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War , and was one of the main Jordanian military leaders in the Battle for Jerusalem as well as the West Bank front of the war. El Tell served as the military governor of the Old City of Jerusalem , a position he was appointed in during the 1948 War. He later fled into exile after he was accused of being a conspirator in the assassination of Jordan's king Abdullah I −which he vehemently denied−and spent many years in exile in Egypt before returning to Jordan in 1967.