List of Lehi operations

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

Operations by year

1944
  • January 28 – failed attempt to blow up St. George's Cathedral, Jerusalem, at the wedding of the Marquess of Douro to Diana, daughter of the British general Douglas McConnel.[1]
  • February 14 – Two British constables were shot dead when they attempted to arrest Lehi fighters pasting up wall posters in Haifa.[2]
  • March 13 – Lehi kills a Jewish CID officer in Ramat Gan.[2]
  • 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.[2][3]
  • 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. Hakim and Bet-Zuri were executed for the murders.

1945

1946
  • In 1946, several British high officials, including Sir Stafford Cripps, Ernest Bevin, and Anthony Eden received letter bombs apparently sent by Lehi.[4]
  • February 26 – Irgun and Lehi fighters attacked three British airfields and destroyed dozens of aircraft. One Irgun fighter was killed.[5]
  • April 25 – 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.[6]
  • June 17 – Lehi attacked railroad workshops in Haifa. Eleven Lehi members were killed during the attack.[7]
  • September 9 – Two British officers were killed by an explosion at a public building in Tel Aviv.[8] 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.[9]
  • September 29 assassination of Tom Wilkin[10]

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 similar looking letter bombs sent to British officials.[4][11] Former Lehi leader Nathan Yellin-Mor admitted that letter bombs had been sent to British targets but denied that any had been sent to Truman.[12]
  • 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.[8]
  • April 23 - Lehi mines a train outside Rehovot. The bombing kills five British officers, two Arab adults and a 3-year old, Gilbert Balladi.[13]
  • April 25 – Lehi bombed a British police compound, killing five policemen.[8]
  • 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.[14] 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.[8] A British soldier was killed in Haifa.[15]
  • 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.[8]
  • 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.[16]
  • September 26 – Irgun fighters robbed a bank, killing four British policemen.[17]
  • November 13 – 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.[8]

1948
  • Lehi Wanted members 1. Jaacov Levstein (Eliav), 2. Yitzhak Yezernitzky (Shamir), 3. Natan Friedman-Yelin
    Lehi Wanted members 1. Jaacov Levstein (Eliav), 2. Yitzhak Yezernitzky (Shamir), 3. Natan Friedman-Yelin
  • Lehi Wanted members Yaacov Levi, Moshe Bar Giora and Yehoshua Cohen
    Lehi Wanted members Yaacov Levi, Moshe Bar Giora and Yehoshua Cohen

See also

References
  1. Obituary for the Duchess of Wellington, The Daily Telegraph; accessed 11 January 2019
  2. Bell, 1976
  3. Johnston, Robert (April 5, 2015). "Terrorist attacks in British Palestine". www.johnstonsarchive.net. Retrieved 2017-05-29.
  4. Smith and Morris, 1949, pp. 229–230
  5. "ETZEL".
  6. "The Tel Aviv Car Park attack April 1946 - ParaData".
  7. "Lohamei Herut Yisrael (Lehi)". Jewishvirtuallibrary.org. Retrieved 2011-03-27.
  8. "Timeline of British Rule in Palestine (1918-1947)". www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org. Retrieved 2017-05-29.
  9. Marton, 2011
  10. Bergman, 2018, pp. 3-5
  11. Pace, Eric (1972-12-02). "Letter‐Bombs Mailed to Truman in 1947". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2017-05-29.
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  13. Palestine Terrorists Kill 8 In Bombing of Troop Train NY Times, April 23, 1947
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  16. The Sunday Times, Sept 24 1972, p. 8
  17. Donald Neff, Hamas: A pale image of the Jewish Irgun and Lehi Gangs. Washington Report on Middle East Affairs.
  18. 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.
  19. Kana'ana, Sharif and Zeitawi, Nihad (1987), "The Village of Deir Yassin", Bir Zeit, Bir Zeit University Press
  20. Morris, 2004,: Chapter 4: The second wave: the mass exodus, April—June 1948, Section: Operation Nahshon, p. 238
  21. 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
  22. Morris, Benny (2005). "The Historiography of Deir Yassin". Journal of Israeli History. 24 (1): 79–107. doi:10.1080/13531040500040305. S2CID 159894369.: page 100-101
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  24. Cesarani, 2009

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