Night of the Bridges
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The Night of the Bridges was a Haganah venture on the night of 16 to 17 June 1946 in the British Mandate of Palestine, as part of the Jewish insurgency in Palestine. Its aim was to destroy eleven brid
Allenby Bridge after its destruction by the Palmach, 1946
Yarmouk bridge ruins
Bridge of the Daughters of Jacob/Bnot Ya'akov in May 2009.
Operation Agatha
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Operation Agatha, sometimes called Black Sabbath or Black Saturday because it began on the Jewish sabbath, was a police and military operation conducted by the British authorities in Mandatory Palesti
Night of the Bridges
…estimated financial damage of 250,000 pounds sterling. Twelve days later, on 29 June 1946, partly in response to the bridge bombings, the British launched Operation Agatha, whose main goal was to suppress the state of anarchy in Palestine by capturing the most militant Zionists. Numbers for involved British personal varies…
Zionist leaders in Latrun, following the operation. Left to right: David Remez, Moshe Sharett, Yitzhak Gruenbaum, Dov Yosef, David Shenkarsky, David Hacohen, Chaim Halperin.
A room in Kibbutz Yagur after a weapon search was conducted during Operation Agatha. From the collections of the National Library of Israel.
British Government Statement of Information Relating to Acts of Violence, including a summary of information gained from Operation Agatha.