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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.
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The defenders of Jaffa, however, were no match to the more organized and equipped forces of the Haganah and Irgun.
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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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