Word: menachim
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Dates: during 1948-1948
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...serving the cause of freedom and humanity and causing the creation of the State of Israel, Menachim Beigin, commander of Irgun Zvai Leumi...
...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...
...Jews to grab what they could. Recently, rugged young recruits, impressed by the Jewish terrorists' reputation for toughness and efficiency, have swelled the fighting forces of the Irgun Zvai Leumi to about 4,000, the ranks of civilian collaborators to about 10,000. Last week, Irgun Commander Menachim Beigin said that he would stop underground activities in Israel. But he warned that his soldiers would fight for "all" of Palestine, including Transjordan, "until the Jewish flag will fly over the Tower of David in Jerusalem and Jewish peasants will work in the fields of Gilead [in Transjordan]." He warned...