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24 unusual facts about Haganah


Abraham Yakin

After the war, he returned to Jerusalem and joined the Haganah.

Arnošt Lustig

He worked as a journalist in Israel at the time of its War of Independence where he met his future wife, who at the time was a volunteer with the Haganah.

Battle of Mishmar HaEmek

The Battle of Mishmar HaEmek was a ten-day battle fought from 4 to 15 April 1948 between the Arab Liberation Army (Yarmouk Battalion) commanded by Fawzi al-Qawuqji and the Haganah (Palmach and HISH) commanded by Yitzhak Sadeh.

Bnot Ya'akov Bridge

On the "night of the bridges" between 16 and 17 June 1946, the bridge was again destroyed by the Haganah.

Bougara

In 1946, the Haganah, the pre-state Zionist military, had a training camp near Bougara.

Canaan Dog

Menzel was asked by the Haganah to help them build up a service dog organization (later to become Unit Oketz).

Efraim Margolin

Growing up with a father who was a local leader of the Haganah Jewish Underground Militia, he became one of the leading young engineers during World War II working for the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company in Iran and later, as Manager in Bahrain Island constructing an airport for the British Air Force.

Golomb

Eliyahu Golomb, leader of the Jewish defense effort in Mandate Palestine, chief architect and "uncrowned commander" of the Haganah

Habis al-Majali

When the Haganah attacked on May 25, Majali's Fourth Regiment was ready.

Hatzor Airbase

On 15 March 1948, as the British Mandate for Palestine drew to a close, the RAF evacuated the airfield and it was taken over by Haganah forces.

Internet Haganah

Haganah is also the name of the early Zionist militia originally formed to defend Jewish settlers in British Mandate Palestine, and which evolved into what is now the Israel Defense Forces.

Jonathan Tasini

Tasini's late father, Betsalel Tasini, was a computer scientist who was born in Palestine and fought in the Haganah, Israel's pre-state army, and its strike force, the Palmach.

Master sergeant

The ranks are derived from those of the paramilitary Haganah developed in the British Mandate of Palestine period to protect the Yishuv.

Operation Ben-Ami

Operation Ben Ami was one of the last operations launched by the Haganah before the end of the British Mandate.

Operation Nachshon

Nachshon was the first major Haganah operation and the first step of Plan Dalet whose aim was to conquer the area allotted to the Jews by the 1947 UN Partition Plan.

Philip Palin

The report criticised all parties: Haj Amin al-Husseini, later Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, for inciting the Arabs to violence; Ze'ev Jabotinsky, organiser of the Jewish paramilitary defence organisation Haganah; the British military command in Jerusalem that had initially withdrawn troops from the streets; and the divided political chain of command from London.

Sergeant first class

The ranks are derived from those of the paramilitary Haganah developed to protect the Yishuv during the British Mandate of Palestine.

Special Interrogation Group

Some personnel was also recruited directly from the Palmach, Haganah and the Irgun.

Tamar Eshel

While in London she was active with the Haganah and in the 1940s she headed its immigration office in France.

Tel Aviv HaHagana Railway Station

The station building fronts a road bridge above Ayalon Highway, connecting Lewinsky Street with HaHagana Road, thence the station's name.

Walid Khalidi

Under his guidance the Institute of Palestine Studies produced a long series of monographs in English and Arabic and several important translations of Hebrew texts into Arabic: 'The History of the Haganah', David Ben-Gurion and Shertok's diaries—texts that still await translation into English.

Yaakov Banai

Under his direction, dozens of combat operations were planned and carried out, a portion of them as part of the Jewish Resistance Movement during which the three underground movements (Haganah, Irgun, Lehi) joined forces against the British.

Yaakov Malkin

During the 1948 war in Israel, he served as a broadcasting officer for the Haganah and the IDF (1947–1948) in the underground radio station, Telem Shamir Boaz, that later became the Israel Army Radio (Galei Tzahal).

Yossi Ben Hanan

His father, Michael Ben Hanan served as one of the top commanders, (Haganah) in Jerusalem.


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Air Service

Sherut Avir, the air force of the Haganah and the forerunner of the Israeli Air Force

Aliyah Bet

During the first phase, several organizations (including Revisionists) led the effort; after World War II, the Mossad LeAliyah Bet ("the Institute for Aliyah B"), an arm of the Haganah, took charge.

Avraham Ahituv

In 1946 Ahituv joined the Haganah while a student in the Kfar Ha-Ro'eh seminary, where he completed his high school matriculation test.

Avraham Tehomi

The 1929 Palestine riots caused unrest in the Haganah ranks because the organization was not ready and did not respond appropriately to the Arab attacks.

Bamahane

Bamahane started in December 1934 as an underground publication by the Tel Aviv office of the Haganah.

Cast a Giant Shadow

Marcus, who parachuted into occupied France during World War II, helped to organize the relief mission for Dachau, the first Nazi concentration camp liberated by American troops, is initially viewed with suspicion by some Haganah soldiers.

David Shaltiel

In 1948, he was the local Haganah district commander when the village was attacked by Irgun and Lehi Jewish fighters despite a non-aggression pact signed between the Zionists and the Mukhtar of the village, the villagers wanting to remain neutral in the war.

Homing pigeon

A Pigeon and a Boy, by Meir Shalev (English translation by Evan Fallenberg), a historical novel about the use of pigeons by the Israel Defense Forces (and the Haganah before Israel was founded in 1948) in the defence of Israel when it was first founded, and in the defence of the Jewish community before Israeli independence

Internet Haganah

Internet Haganah was identified by Media Matters for America as one of the sources to use the term "Obama Intifada", a term critical of U.S. President Barack Obama's policies on Israel.

Moshe Tzadok

Prior to the Haganah's capture of Haifa, he served as the Fire chief of the Haifa Fire Department which facilitated covert Haganah operations in the city.

Tilhas Tizig Gesheften

The TTG Brigade was created by Israel Carmi, who was an officer of the Jewish Brigade while concurrently acting as a senior representative of the then-underground Haganah.

Yishuv

The Haganah protected the Yishuv’s settlements while the Irgun and Etzel, more radical groups, attacked Arab settlements.