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Irgun Flogs British Troops in Streets

Irgun Flogs British Troops in Streets

December 29, 1946 The underground militant movement Irgun carries out the Night of the Beatings, an effort across Palestine to flog British soldiers in retribution for the lashing of captured Irgun members. Irgun members abduct…

Today in Israeli History|December 29, 1946
Jerusalem’s King David Hotel Is Bombed

Jerusalem’s King David Hotel Is Bombed

Members of the Irgun, a Jewish military organization that is absorbed into the IDF during the 1948 War, bomb the British administrative headquarters in Palestine, based in the King David Hotel in Jerusalem. Twenty-eight British, forty-one Arabs, and seventeen Jews are killed.

Mossad’s Meir Amit Born

Mossad’s Meir Amit Born

March 17, 1921 Meir Amit, a career soldier who builds the Mossad into an internationally renowned intelligence agency, is born Meir Slutzky on the shores of the Sea of Galilee in Tiberias. He attends agricultural…