List of Lehi operations

The following is a list of Lehi operations. Lehi split from the Irgun in August 1940, and dissolved in late 1948.

Operations by year

1944

February 14 – Two British constables were shot dead when they attempted to arrest Lehi fighters pasting up wall posters in Haifa.[1]

March 13 – March 13 – Lehi kills a Jewish CID officer in Ramat Gan.[1]

March 19 – A Lehi member was shot dead while resisting arrest by the CID in Tel Aviv. Lehi retaliated with an attack in Tel Aviv that killed two police officers and wounded one.[1][2]

March 23 – Lehi attack in Jerusalem kills a police officer and wounds another.

November 6 – Lord Moyne, British Deputy Resident Minister of State in Cairo was assassinated by Lehi members Eliyahu Hakim and Eliyahu Bet-Zuri; this operation triggers The Hunting Season. Moyne's driver was also killed.

1945

October – The Jewish Resistance Movement, a cooperation between the Haganah, Irgun, and Lehi is activated by the Jewish Agency until August 1946.

November 1 – Night of the Trains

December 27 – Irgun and Lehi bombings of police stations in Jerusalem and Haifa leave 10 dead and 12 injured.

1946

In 1946, several British high officials, including Sir Stafford Cripps, Ernest Bevin, and Anthony Eden received letter bombs apparently sent by Lehi.[3]

February 26 – Irgun and Lehi fighters attacked three British airfields and destroyed dozens of aircraft. One Irgun fighter was killed.[4]

25 Apr 1946 – Lehi fighters attacked a Tel Aviv car park that was being used by the British Army's 6th Airborne Division, killing seven British soldiers and looting the arms racks they found. They then laid mines and retreated.[5]

June 17 – Lehi attacked railroad workshops in Haifa. Eleven Lehi members were killed during the attack.[6]

September 9 – Two British officers were killed by an explosion at a public building in Tel Aviv.[7] A British police sergeant, T.G. Martin, who had identified and arrested Lehi leader and future Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir, was assassinated near his Haifa home.[8]

1947

In 1947, several letter bombs were sent to President Harry Truman in the White House. They were intercepted by White House mail room workers, who were on alert because of letter bombs to British officials. Lehi took credit.[3][9]

January 12 – A Lehi member drove a truck bomb into a police station in Haifa, killing two British and two Arab constables, and wounding 140.[7]

April 23 – Lehi mines a train outside Rehovot. The bombing kills five British officers, two Arab adults and a 3-year old, Gilbert Balladi.[10]

April 25 – Lehi bombed a British police compound, killing five policemen.[7]

May 4 – Acre Prison break – Irgun members working with Jewish prisoners inside Acre Prison managed to blow a hole in the wall, and assault the prison, freeing 28 Jewish prisoners. Nine Irgun and Lehi fighters, including commander Dov Cohen, were killed during the retreat.[11] Five Irgun fighters and eight escapees were later captured.

May 15 – Two British soldiers were killed and seven injured by Lehi. A British policeman was also killed in an ambush.

June 4 – Eight Lehi Letter bombs addressed to high British government officials, including Prime Minister Clement Attlee, were discovered in London.[7] A British soldier was killed in Haifa.[12]

June 28 – Lehi fighters opened fire on a line of British soldiers waiting in line outside a Tel Aviv theater, killing three soldiers and wounding two. One Briton was also killed and several wounded in a Haifa hotel. A Jewish fighter was also wounded.

June 29 – Four British soldiers were wounded in a Lehi attack at a Herzliya beach.[7]

September 3 – A postal bomb sent by either Irgun or Lehi exploded in the post office sorting room of the British War Office in London, injuring two.[13]

September 26 – Irgun fighters robbed a bank, killing four British policemen.[14]

13 Nov 1947 – Lehi grenade attack on British soldiers in cafe leaves 1 dead and 27 wounded.

December 25 – Lehi members machine-gun two British soldiers in a Tel Aviv cafe.[7]

1948

January 4 – Lehi detonates a truck bomb against the headquarters of the paramilitary al-Najjada located in Jaffa's Town Hall, killing 15 Arabs and injuring 80.[7][15]

February 29, March 31 – Cairo–Haifa train bombings 1948

April 9 - April 11 – About 110 Arabs massacred (the estimate generally accepted by scholars, instead of the first announced number of 254) during and after the battle at the village of Deir Yassin near Jerusalem, by 132 Irgun and 60 Lehi fighters.[16][17][18][19][20]

May 3 – A Lehi book bomb posted to the parental home of British Major Roy Farran was opened by his brother Rex, killing him. Roy Farran was court-martialed on a charge of murdering an unarmed 16-year-old member of Lehi during his command of an undercover Palestine Police unit.[21]

September 17 – Assassination of Folke Bernadotte

October 28 – Al-Dawayima massacre (killing of Arab civilians by IDF Battalion composed of former Irgun and Lehi members).

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 Bell, Bowyer J.: Terror out of Zion (1976), ISBN 978-1-56000-870-5
  2. ↑ Johnston, Robert (April 5, 2015). "Terrorist attacks in British Palestine". www.johnstonsarchive.net. Retrieved 2017-05-29.
  3. 1 2 Smith, Ira R. T.; Morris, Joe Alex (1949). Dear Mr. President... The Story of Fifty Years in the White House Mail Room. pp. 229–230.
  4. ↑ "ETZEL".
  5. ↑ "The Tel Aviv Car Park attack April 1946 - ParaData".
  6. ↑ "Lohamei Herut Yisrael (Lehi)". Jewishvirtuallibrary.org. Retrieved 2011-03-27.
  7. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "Timeline of British Rule in Palestine (1918-1947)". www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org. Retrieved 2017-05-29.
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  9. ↑ Pace, Eric (1972-12-02). "Letter‐Bombs Mailed to Truman in 1947". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2017-05-29.
  10. ↑ Palestine Terrorists Kill 8 In Bombing of Troop Train NY Times, April 23, 1947
  11. ↑ "Acre Jail Break". Britains-smallwars.com. Retrieved 2011-03-27.
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  13. ↑ The Sunday Times, Sept 24 1972, p. 8
  14. ↑ Donald Neff, Hamas: A pale image of the Jewish Irgun and Lehi Gangs. Washington Report on Middle East Affairs.
  15. ↑ Yoav Gelber, 'Palestine 1948', p. 20; The Scotsman newspaper, 6th January 1948; Walid Khalidi states that 25 civilians were killed, in addition to the military targets. 'Before Their Diaspora', 1984. p. 316, picture p. 325; Benny Morris, 'The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem, 1947-1949', Cambridge University Press, p. 46.
  16. ↑ Kana'ana, Sharif and Zeitawi, Nihad (1987), "The Village of Deir Yassin", Bir Zeit, Bir Zeit University Press
  17. ↑ Morris, Benny (2003). The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited. Cambridge, UK; New York: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-81120-1.: Chapter 4: The second wave: the mass exodus, April—June 1948, Section: Operation Nahshon, page 238
  18. ↑ Milstein, Uri (1998) [1987]. Alan Sacks, ed. History of the War of Independence IV: Out of Crisis Came Decision (in Hebrew and English). Translated by Alan Sacks. Lanhan, Maryland: University Press of America, Inc. ISBN 0-7618-1489-2.: Chapter 16: Deir Yassin, Section 12: The Massacre, page 376-381
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  21. ↑ Cesarani, David. Major Farran's Hat: Murder, Scandal and Britain's War Against Jewish Terrorism 1945–1948. Vintage Books. London. 2010.
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