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King David Hotel bombing: A Zionist underground organisation, the Irgun, bombs the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, site of the civil administration and military headquarters for Mandatory Palestine, resulting in 91 deaths.
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King David Hotel bombing
1946 terrorist attack in Jerusalem
The British administrative headquarters for Mandatory Palestine, housed in the southern wing of the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, were bombed in a terrorist attack on 22 July 1946, by the militant right-wing Zionist underground organization Irgun during the Jewish insurgency.…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Irgun
Zionist paramilitary organization (1931–1948)
The Irgun, officially the National Military Organization in the Land of Israel, often abbreviated as Etzel or IZL (אצ״ל), was a Zionist paramilitary organization that operated in Mandatory Palestine between 1931 and 1948. It was an offshoot of the older and larger Jewish…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
King David Hotel
Hotel in Jerusalem, Israel
The King David Hotel is a 5-star hotel in Jerusalem and a member of The Leading Hotels of the World. Opened in 1931, it was built with locally quarried pink limestone and was founded by Ezra Mosseri, a wealthy Egyptian Jewish banker. It is located on King David Street in the…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Jerusalem
City in the Southern Levant
Jerusalem is a city in the Southern Levant, on a plateau in the Judaean Mountains between the Mediterranean and the Dead Sea. It is one of the oldest cities in the world, and is considered holy to the three major Abrahamic religions—Judaism, Christianity and Islam. Both Israel…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Mandatory Palestine
British geopolitical entity (1920–1948)
Mandatory Palestine was a British geopolitical entity that existed between 1920 and 1948 in the region of Palestine, and after 1922, under the terms of the League of Nations' Mandate for Palestine.Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)