Word: haganah
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bitterest Blow." On the beach at Kfar Vitkin, 20 miles north of Tel Aviv, waited slight, sharp-eyed Menachim Beigin and a force of his bully boys, to help unload. But Haganah, now Israel's official army, was waiting too, with orders to stop them. Result: a short, sharp civil war of Jew against Jew, which Israel's Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion last week described as "the bitterest blow...
Last January Marcus was back in his law practice when Haganah asked him to help build an efficient Jewish army. Marcus consented. As chief planner he won the confidence of Palestine Jews by suggesting "we ought . . ." instead of "you must . . ." In April, he returned briefly to the U.S. on what he regarded as an ironic mission: to receive from the hand of British Ambassador Lord Inverchapel a decoration as Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, for his work in World War II. Then he went back to Palestine...
...When both copies were finally signed, our small party walked down the wide, deserted, battle-shattered street, one side of it small shops, the other the high, massive south wall of the Old City, into the Jewish quarter. I half expected to encounter Eric Gibbs, but he was at Haganah headquarters in the New City of Jerusalem awaiting the unusually heavy Jewish attack on four of the Old City's gates which opened up as night fell...
...headquarters for his Jewish "Special Night Squads" in the hilltop Jewish settlement of Ein Harod, facing Mount Gilboa. He considered that Israel's King Saul should have pitched his camp in the same spot, instead of in the valley below. In time, Wingate's "S.N.S." grew into Haganah's shock troops, Palmach. But that was after Wingate's day. The British government, which thought him too friendly to the Zionists, recalled him from Palestine...
...Haganah officers who had served with the British in the Jewish Brigade in World War II listened grimly to familiar British commands, given in a cool, clipped English voice, over the Arab communication net. With a deadly precision in sharp contrast to the inefficiency of Arab volunteers, the Arab Legion laid down heavy mortar fire. Haganah girls crawled out on the battlefield to bring in the wounded...