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Lehi, the most radical of the Zionist underground movements fighting the British in the early 1940s. Though Lehi was the acronym for the Hebrew phrase “fighters for the freedom of Israel,” the British considered it a terrorist organization, referring to it dismissively as the Stern Gang, after its founder, the romantic ultra-nationalist Avraham

The S/10 Battalion of ‘S’ Brigade was formed in 1948 and was Zahal’s first tank battalion. It was established by General Itzhak Sade, the “Old Man”, founder of the Haganah Field Companies and Palmach. Its first commander was Major Felix Beatus, who at that time spoke nothing but Polish and Russian.

“If we must offend one side,” Chamberlain told his Cabinet, “let us offend the Jews rather than the Arabs.”

Ben-Gurion was determined to snuff out any remaining embers of the Irgun and the Lechi, and he convinced the cabinet to give him broad powers to end acts of terrorism, including administrative detention without trial. The era of the Jewish underground,…

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