Under the agreement, the Irgun retains its own forces, but it will refrain from separate operations and obey the orders of the Haganah Supreme Command which, incidentally, has announced the ...
The bombing is believed to be the work of the Irgun which yesterday killed 13 Arabs at the Damascus Gate in Jerusalem in a similar action. The bombs, which set off the worst massacre in the month ...
This was during the Altalena affair of mid-June 1948 (about a month after the Declaration of Independence), when the Irgun independently brought to Israel a ship carrying around 930 immigrants ...
As the bus approached, Schein fired several shots before his gun jammed and, when Ben-Yosef tossed the grenade, it failed to detonate and the bus, with its 24 Arab passengers, drove away with its pas ...