Yishuv
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The Yishuv, HaYishuv Ha'ivri, or HaYishuv HaYehudi Be'Eretz Yisra'el was the community of Jews residing in Palestine prior to the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948. The Yishuv was also refe
Jews at the Kotel, 1870s
Jewish community in the Mutasarrifate of Jerusalem under Ottoman rule, 1895
Yitzhak Ben-Zvi at the Yishuv's Assembly of Representatives, September 1944
Piki Wiki Israel 5628 Synagogue
Haganah
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The Haganah was the main Zionist paramilitary organization that operated for the Yishuv in the British Mandate for Palestine. It was founded in 1920 to defend the Yishuv's presence in the region, and
Yishuv
…giving the Yishuv's governing bodies international legitimacy. The most notable Jewish paramilitaries in the British Mandate of Palestine were the Haganah, the Irgun and Lehi. In October 1945, during the Jewish insurgency in Mandatory Palestine, those organizations joined to form the Jewish Resistance…
Haganah poster from the 1940s
Haganah fighters guarding Migdal Tzedek, 1936
In 1940 a Haganah bomb sank the SS Patria, killing 267 people.
Marching Jewish troops in the British army (1942)