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Irgun

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Irgun

Short for Irgun Zvai Leumi (National Military Society), a Jewish guerrilla group active against the British administration in Palestine (1946–48). Their bombing of the King David Hotel in Jerusalem in 22 July 1946 resulted in 91 fatalities.



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Emanuel is a noted Israel-firster whose father was a member of the terrorist Irgun, and who himself flew to help defend Israel during the first Gulf war.
The defenders of Jaffa, however, were no match to the more organized and equipped forces of the Haganah and Irgun.
Uri Avnery: I joined the Irgun when I was just fifteen years old, and I left when I was nineteen years old.
 
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