Following the issuing of the Passfield White Paper, this group helped organize immigration, and its military operations included the capture of Jaffa as well as the freeing of over 200 prisoners held at Acre.
Tensions between this organization and its rival flared in an incident during which this group's supply ship, the Altalena, was sunk. Following the issuing of the Passfield White Paper, this group helped organize immigration, and its military operations included the capture of Jaffa as well as the freeing of over 200 prisoners held at Acre. Along with an organization called "Lehi," this group was an offshoot of the Hagana and its political wing would later become the Herut, or "Freedom," party. This organization's most famous actions included the killing of all 254 inhabitants of the village of Deir Yassin, as well as the July 22, 1946 killing of 91 people via a bomb. Disbanded by order of David Ben Gurion after its members' incorporation into the IDF, for 10 points, identify this Menachem Begin-led paramilitary force of Jewish settlers, whose notable acts of terrorism included the bombing of the King David Hotel.
Tensions between this organization and its rival flared in an incident during which this group's supply ship, the Altalena, was sunk.
Irgun Zvai Leumi [accept Etzel, do not accept "the Stern Gang"]