Word: haganah
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...last summer Meyer Tobiansky went from Jerusalem to Tel Aviv to visit his brother. When he did not come back, his wife Lena went to the headquarters of the Haganah, in which her husband held a high post. "I asked everyone where Mischa was," she recalls. "Most of them wouldn't talk to me. They shut their doors in my face...
...Amos, who was a major in the British Army, later a Haganah fighter, recently married a British Christian. Ben-Gurion did not hold her faith against her; he gathered up an armload of Jewish histories and Zionist tracts, mailed them to her so that she would understand her adopted country...
...week visit to Broadway was the distinguished Palestine acting company, the: 1. Haganah...
...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...
...terrorists got part of their arms ashore at Kfar Vitkin. But in the fight they lost six killed, 20 wounded, while Haganah suffered two dead, three wounded. Beigin boarded the ship, ordered it southward. At midnight the Altalena rammed on to the beach at Tel Aviv for another attempt. When noon came, an assault boat with a few steel-helmeted Irgunists ventured toward the beach, and despite Haganah fire set up a small beachhead. But when Haganah turned mortar fire on the Altalena, and smoke began to pour out amidships, the rest of the Irgunists jumped over the sides, swam...