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JASON LEWIS: Truth Still The First Casualty
In 1946, Irgun terrorists dynamited the King David Hotel in pre-state British Palestine. The horrific carnage that claimed nearly 100 lives would one day be described this way: “In that split second after 12:37, 13 of…
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About Irgun
The Irgun, officially the National Military Organization in the Land of Israel, often abbreviated as Etzel (אצ״ל) or IZL, was a Zionist paramilitary organization that operated in Mandatory Palestine between 1931 and 1948. It was an offshoot of the older and larger Jewish paramilitary organization Haganah.
Everything about Irgun →- Country
- Yishuv
- Inception
- April 1931