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2 unusual facts about Jewish Resistance Movement


Jewish resistance

Jewish Resistance Movement, a Jewish underground movement in Mandate Palestine

Jewish Resistance Movement

In August 1946, because of Operation Agatha and the King David Hotel bombing (which shocked the public because of the deaths of many innocent civilians), Chaim Weizmann, president of the WZO appealed to the movement to cease all further military activity until a decision would be reached by the Jewish Agency.


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.


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