Jewish Defense Organizations:
Irgun Tz'va'i Leumi (Etzel)

Reference

• Background & Overview
• Establishment of the Irgun
• Split Within the Irgun
• Hagana's “Hunting Season”

Major Incidents

• Bombing of King David Hotel (1946)
• Acre Prison Break (1947)
• Altalena Affair (1948)

Relations with British

• "Revolt" Proclaimed by the Irgun
• Irgun’s Role in Illegal Immigration
• Deportation to Africa

Irgun Members

• Yaakov Aharoni
• Haviv Avshalom
• Menahem Begin
• Aryeh Ben-Eliezer
• Robert Bitker
• Dov Cohen
• Yaakov Eliav
• Aharon Heichman
• Ze'ev Jabotinsky
• Shmuel Katz
• Yosef Katznelson
• Hillel Kook
• Eliyahu Lankin
• Eitan Livni
• Yaakov Meridor
• Amichai Paglin
• David Raziel
• Yosef Simchon
• Avraham Stern
• Yaakov Weiss
• Benyamin Zeroni