The Acre Prison break was an operation undertaken by the Irgun on May 4, 1947, in the British Mandate of Palestine, in which its men broke through the walls of the Central Prison in Acre and freed 27 incarcerated Irgun and Lehi members.
The AcrePrisonbreak was an operation undertaken by the Irgun on May 4, 1947, in the British Mandate of Palestine, in which its men broke through the...
AcrePrison, also known as Akko Prison, is a former prison and current museum in Acre, Israel. The citadel in the old city was built during the Ottoman...
Gilboa Prisonbreak was a security event in Israel which occurred on 6 September 2021, when six Palestinian prisoners escaped from Gilboa Prison, a maximum...
Yehiel Dresner, Eliezer Kashani, and Mordechai Alkahi were hanged in AcrePrison, while singing Hatikvah. On April 21 Meir Feinstein and Lehi member Moshe...
He was one of three Irgun members executed for their part in the AcrePrisonbreak, which triggered the Irgun's retaliatory hanging of two British soldiers...
their sentence was commuted to life in prison. Michael was shot and severely wounded during the AcrePrisonbreak, and died from his injuries after several...
next few weeks. In the AcrePrisonbreak, 28 members of the Jewish underground groups Irgun and Lehi escaped from AcrePrison in Acre, Mandatory Palestine...
of the kibbutz Ma'ayan Barukh. 4 May – AcrePrisonbreak: Irgun forces break through the walls of the Acreprison and free 28 incarcerated Irgun and Lehi...
4 – AcrePrisonbreak – Irgun members working with Jewish prisoners inside AcrePrison managed to blow a hole in the wall, and assault the prison, freeing...
carried out. The three had been captured by the British during the AcrePrisonbreak, tried, and convicted on charges of illegal possession of arms, and...
known as 'Shimshon'. Killed at the age of 32 in the aftermath of the AcrePrisonBreak in 1947 Bernard Lowenthal Lt. Herbert Delmonte-Nietto-Hollander, attached...
officers. On May 4, 1947, he participated in the AcrePrisonbreak, an Irgun raid against AcrePrison to free imprisoned Jewish underground members. Nakar...
presence of over 100,000 British troops in the country. Following the AcrePrisonBreak and the retaliatory hanging of British sergeants by the Irgun, the...
Galilee due to its proximity to the Mediterranean Sea. Seven of the AcrePrisonbreak fighters who were killed during the operation are buried in the local...
operations directly ordered by Begin: the Night of the Beatings, the AcrePrisonbreak, and the Sergeants affair, were cited as particularly influencing...
Haviv, Meir Nakar, and Yaakov Weiss, to death for their role in the AcrePrisonbreak. UNSCOP appealed to the British government through UN Secretary-General...
unequivocal—they were "to prevent constant military traffic in the city, to break the spirit of the enemy troops, to cause chaos among the civilian population...
base at Qastina, the Goldschmidt House officers club bombing, the AcrePrisonbreak, and led the Irgun squad that hanged two British sergeants from trees...
4 – AcrePrisonbreak – Irgun members working with Jewish prisoners inside AcrePrison managed to blow a hole in the wall, and assault the prison, freeing...
Zettler was freed in the AcrePrisonbreak, a complex operation in which Irgun fighters blasted a hole in the wall of AcrePrison, while Jewish prisoners...
imprisoned by the British authorities in AcrePrison, and assisted in the preparations for the AcrePrisonbreak. His most controversial action during this...
comrades, to 15 years imprisonment, but was freed two years later in the AcrePrisonbreak. He was sent clandestinely to Europe to organize action against British...
towards him, but subsequently recovered. During the AcrePrisonbreak, a 1947 raid on AcrePrison by the Irgun to free imprisoned Irgun and Lehi members...
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