{"id":83922,"date":"2025-07-15T13:49:21","date_gmt":"2025-07-15T19:49:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/?p=83922"},"modified":"2025-07-16T01:02:37","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T07:02:37","slug":"jewish-invention-myths-the-galil-rifle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/15\/jewish-invention-myths-the-galil-rifle\/","title":{"rendered":"Jewish Invention Myths: The Galil Rifle"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Jewish Invention Myths: The Galil Rifle<\/a><\/h1>\n

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I have covered several gun and\/or military-related jewish invention myths before \u2013 such as the Uzi, (1) the Desert Eagle (2) and the MiG series of fighter planes \u2013 (3) but another less well-known myth concerns the origins of IDF\u2019s main weapons of the 1970s to the 1990s although more in theory than practice: the Galil Rifle.<\/h2>\n

Although often touted as some\u00a0\u2018amazing Israeli invention\u2019\u00a0<\/em>by commentators who should know better (4) the truth is the Israeli Galil was simply \u2013 rather like the Uzi \u2013 a straight copy of an existing weapon in the form of the Egyptian-made variant of the Soviet AK 47 but then modified using a Finnish improved version of the AK 47: the Valmet RK 62.<\/h2>\n

RTWT @ Karl’s Substack<\/a><\/h2>\n

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Jewish Invention Myths: The Galil Rifle   I have covered several gun and\/or military-related jewish invention myths before \u2013 such as the Uzi, (1) the Desert Eagle (2) and the MiG series of fighter planes \u2013 (3) but another less well-known myth concerns the origins of IDF\u2019s main weapons of the 1970s to the 1990s…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[13890,7725,5940,3176,5176,5971,17107,401,24],"tags":[18844,17338,17195,18845,18846,9057],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83922"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83922"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83933,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83922\/revisions\/83933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}