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Exact day22 July 1946
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A licensed photograph, with its credit, is added after review; never a generated likeness.On 22 July 1946 the Irgun, on the order of its head Menachem Begin, blew up the south wing of the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, which housed the central offices of the British civilian administration. Ninety-one civil servants and visitors were killed: 41 Arabs, 28 Britons and 17 Jews.
The Interactive Encyclopedia of the Palestine Question records that on 22 July 1946 Menachem Begin, then head of the Irgun, ordered the blowing up of the south wing of the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, which housed the central offices of the civilian administration, and that 91 civil servants and civilian visitors were killed, of whom 41 were Arab, 28 British and 17 Jewish.12
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PalQuest · Institute for Palestine Studies · section: Entry text
Editorial paraphrase · enOn 22 July 1946 Menachem Begin, then head of the Irgun, ordered the blowing up of the south wing of the King David Hotel, which housed the central offices of the civilian administration.
Link to this citationPalQuest · Institute for Palestine Studies · section: Entry text
Original-language quotation · en91 civil servants and civilian visitors were killed, of whom 41 were Arab, 28 British, and 17 Jewish.Link to this citationarticle · PalQuest · Institute for Palestine Studies
The encyclopedia’s entry on its photograph of the bombed hotel (Imperial War Museum collection), Interactive Encyclopedia of the Palestine Question (Institute for Palestine Studies); the photograph itself is not reproduced.
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