The British administrative headquarters for Mandatory Palestine, housed in the southern wing of the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, were bombed in a terrorist attack on 22 July 1946, by the militant ri
The hotel after the bombing
Zionist leaders arrested in Operation Agatha. Left to right: David Remez, Moshe Sharett, Yitzhak Gruenbaum, Dov Yosef, Shenkarsky, David Hacohen, Halperin.
The explosion of a second bomb at the King David Hotel
Zionists committed a number of acts of political violence in support of establishing and maintaining a Jewish state in Palestine. These actions have been carried out by individuals, paramilitary group
Dutch Jewish lawyer, journalist, and poet Jacob Israël de Haan became active against Zionism after having migrated to Palestine. In 1924, Haganah member Avraham Tehomi assassinated de Haan in Jerusalem on the orders of leader Yitzhak Ben-Zvi before de Haan was due to go to London to advocate against Zionism.
British sergeants Clifford Martin and Mervyn Paice kidnapped and hanged by the Zionist paramilitary organization Irgun in 1947.