The Israeli city of Haifa has announced it will revise its school history books to correctly credit Indian troops, not the British, for liberating the city from Ottoman rule during World War I.

This correction was confirmed by Haifa’s Mayor, Yona Yahav, during a ceremony on Monday at the Indian soldiers’ cemetery, where tributes were paid to the brave Indian soldiers who fought in the Battle of Haifa in 1918.

Mayor Yahav said, “I was born in this city and graduated from here. Constantly we were told that this city was freed by the British till somebody from the Historical Society knocked at my door one day and said that they have done a thorough research and found that it wasn’t the British but the Indians who freed this city (from the Ottomans)."

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