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Haganah (Hebrew: "The Defense", ההגנה) was a Jewish paramilitary organization in what was then the British Mandate of Palestine from 1920 to 1948, which later became the core of the Israel Defense Forces.

Origins

The predecessor of Haganah was Ha-Shomer (השומר, The Guild of Watchman) established in 1907. It was a small group of Jewish immigrants who guarded settlements for an annual fee. At no time did the group have more than 100 members.

After the 1920 Arab riots and 1921 Jaffa riots, the Jewish leadership in Palestine believed that the British (whom the League of Nations had given a mandate over Palestine in 1920) had no desire to confront local Arab gangs over their attacks on Palestinian Jews. Realizing that they could not rely on the British administration for protection from these gangs, the Jewish leadership created the Haganah to protect their farms and Kibbutzim. In addition to guarding Jewish communities, the role of the Haganah was to warn the residents of and repel attacks by Palestinian Arabs. In the period between 1920–1929, the Haganah lacked a strong central authority or coordination. Haganah "units" were very localized and poorly armed: they consisted mainly of Jewish farmers who took turns guarding their farms or their kibbutzim. Following the Arab massacres of 1929, the Haganah's role changed dramatically. It became a much larger organization encompassing nearly all the youth and adults in the Jewish settlements, as well as thousands of members from the cities. It also acquired foreign arms and began to develop workshops to create hand grenades and simple military equipment, transforming from an untrained militia to a capable underground army.

In 1936 the Haganah fielded 10,000 mobilized men along with 40,000 reservists. During the 1936-1939 Arab revolt in Palestine, it participated actively to protect British interests and to quell Arab rebellion using the FOSH, and then HISH units. Although the British administration did not officially recognize the Haganah, the British security forces cooperated with it by forming the Jewish Settlement Police, Jewish Auxiliary Forces and Special Night Squads, which were trained and led by Colonel Orde Wingate. The battle experience gained during this time was to become very useful in the 1948 Arab-Israeli war.

Many Haganah fighters objected to the official policy of havlagah (restraint) that Jewish political leaders (who had become increasingly controlling of the Haganah) had imposed on the militia. Fighters had been instructed to only defend communities and not initiate counter attacks against Arab gangs or their communities. This policy appeared defeatist to many who believed that the best defense is a good offense and, in 1931, the most militant elements of the Haganah splintered off and formed the Irgun Tsva'i-Leumi (National Military Organization), better known as "Irgun" (or by its Hebrew acronym, pronounced "Etsel"). In 1940, the Irgun also split over the issue of whether or not to attack the British during World War II and their off-shoot became known as the "Lehi" (Hebrew acronym of Lochamei Herut Yisrael, standing for Fighters for the Freedom of Israel, and also known by the British as the "Stern Gang" after its leader, Abraham Stern).

By 1939, the British had severely restricted Jewish immigration to Palestine and were importing Arab labor from other parts of the Middle East. In response, the Haganah created the Palmach — (the Palmach was actually formed by the British in response to the threat of German invasion by Rommel's forces. It went underground after it felt betrayed by the British at the end of 1942 following Rommel's defeat) the Haganah's elite strike force, which also organized illegal Jewish immigration to Palestine. Approximately 100,000 Jews were brought to Palestine in over one hundred ships during the final decade of the Ha'apala. The Haganah also organized demonstrations against British immigration quotas.

In 1944, after the assassination of Lord Moyne (the British Minister of State for the Middle East) by members of the Jewish Lehi underground, the Haganah worked with the British to kidnap, interrogate, and, in some cases, deport Irgun members. This action was called the Saison, or hunting season, and was directed against the Irgun and not Lehi possibly due to the perceived political threat the Irgun presented to David Ben Gurion's position of leadership. Future Jerusalem mayor Teddy Kollek was later revealed to be the official most responsible, under the code name Scorpion, for turning Irgun activists over to the British authorities. Many Jewish youth, who had joined the Haganah in order to defend the Jewish people, were greatly demoralized by operations against their own people. The Irgun, paralyzed by the Saison, were ordered by their commander, Menachem Begin, not to retaliate in an effort to avoid a full blown civil war. Although many Irgunists objected to these orders, they obeyed Begin and refrained from fighting back. The Saison eventually ended due to perceived British betrayal becoming more obvious to the public and Haganah youth becoming increasingly vocal in their opposition to the policy.

File:Haganah troops on parade.jpg

Haganah troops on parade

The Saison officially ended when the Haganah, Irgun, and Lehi formed the Hebrew Resistance Movement. Within this new framework, the three groups had different functions, which served to drive the British out of Palestine and create a Jewish state. As Menachem Begin stated in a 1944 meeting: "In fact, there is a division of roles; One organization advocates individual terrorism (Lehi), the other conducts sporadic military operations (Irgun) and there is a third organization which prepares itself to throw its final weight in the decisive war." This united effort lasted for a total of nine months until the Irgun bombing of the King David Hotel's south wing (then used as a British headquarters). Although the Haganah had sanctioned the operation and the Irgun phoned in two warnings to the British, the hotel was not evacuated and 91 people were killed in the explosion. Shocked by the death toll and worried about the negative image this would generate, the Haganah quickly distanced itself from both the Irgun and Lehi.

World War II participation

File:To-the-flag.jpg

A British recruitment drive poster for the Jewish Brigade from the 1940s reads: "Soldiers of 1915-1918: to the flag!"

Despite the 1939 White Paper which deeply angered the Zionist leadership in Palestine, David Ben-Gurion, then chairman of the Jewish Agency, set the policy for the Zionist relationship with the British: We shall fight the war against Hitler as if there were no White Paper, and we shall fight the White Paper as if there were no war. The Irgun, however took a more extreme stance starting in 1944 and began bombing British installations.

In the first years of World War II, the British authorities asked Haganah for cooperation again, due to the fear for an Axis breakthrough in North Africa. After Rommel was defeated at El Alamein in 1942, the British stepped back from their all-out support for Haganah. In 1943, after a long series of requests and negotiations, the British Army announced the creation of the Jewish Brigade Group. While Palestinian Jews had been permitted to enlist in the British army since 1940, this was the first time an exclusively Jewish military unit served in the war under a Jewish flag. The Jewish Brigade Group consisted of 5,000 soldiers and was deployed in Italy in September 1944. The brigade was disbanded in 1946.

All in all, more than 30,000 Palestinian Jews served in the British army during the war.

On May 19, 1941 the Haganah created the Palmach (an acronym for Plugot Mahatz—strike companies), an elite military-like section which focused on providing training to youngsters. It was never large — by 1947 it amounted to merely five battalions (about 2,000 men) — but its members had received not only physical and basic military training, but also acquired leadership skills that, in retrospect, would allow them to take up command positions in Israel's future army.

After the war

A leaflet signed by Haganah Commander in Tel-Aviv, warning Irgun not to engage in blackmail and other violent criminal acts, or face severe measures (1947)

After the war, the Haganah carried out anti-British operations in Palestine, such as the liberation of interned immigrants from the Atlit camp, the bombing of the country's railroad network, sabotage raids on radar installations and bases of the British Palestine police. It also continued to organize illegal immigration.

On May 28, 1948, less than two weeks after the creation of the state of Israel on May 15, the provisional government created the Israeli Defense Forces which would succeed the Haganah. It also outlawed maintenance of any other armed force.

Famous members of the Haganah included: Yitzhak Rabin, Ariel Sharon, Rehavam Zeevi, Dov Hoz, Moshe Dayan, Yigal Allon and Dr. Ruth Westheimer.

References

Bregman, Ahron. Israel's Wars: A History Since 1947. London: Routledge, 2002. ISBN 0-415-28716-2.
Niv, David. The Irgun Tsva'i Leumi. Jerusalem: World Zionist Organization (Department for Education and Culture), 1980.
"Text of the British White Paper Linking Jewish Agency to Zionist Terrorism in Palestine," The New York Times, July 25, 1946, p. 8.
Zadka, Dr. Saul. Blood in Zion, How the Jewish Guerrillas drove the British out of Palestine. London: Brassey's, 1995. ISBN 1-85753-136-1.
Jim G. Tobias, Peter Zinke. Nakam - Jüdische Rache an NS-Tätern. Konkret Literatur Verlag, Hamburg 2000. 173 Seiten, ISBN 3-89458-194-8 (German, about 1944-1947)
Bergman, Ronen. Kollek was British informer. Ynet news. March 29, 2007. [1]

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-The '''Haganah''' (Hebrew: "Defense", &#1492;&#1490;&#1504;&#1492;) was a [[Zionism|Zionist]] terrorism organization in [[Palestine]] during the [[British mandate of Palestine]] from [[1920]] to [[1948]]. The Haganah later became the [[Israel Defense Forces]]&#8212;[[Israel]]'s army.
+[[Image:Hagnah-logo1.jpg|thumb|right|159px|Haganah Poster (1940s)]]
+'''Haganah''' ([[Hebrew language|Hebrew]]: "The Defense", ההגנה) was a [[Jew]]ish [[paramilitary]] organization in what was then the [[British Mandate of Palestine]] from [[1920]] to [[1948]], which later became the core of the [[Israel Defense Forces]].
 == Origins ==
+The predecessor of Haganah was [[Ha-Shomer]] (השומר, The Guild of Watchman) established in 1907. It was a small group of [[Immigration to Palestine and Israel|Jewish immigrants]] who guarded settlements for an annual fee. At no time did the group have more than 100 members.
+After the 1920 [[1920 Palestine riots|Arab riots]] and 1921 [[Jaffa riots]], the Jewish leadership in Palestine believed that the British (whom the [[League of Nations]] had given a mandate over Palestine in 1920) had no desire to confront local Arab gangs over their attacks on Palestinian Jews. Realizing that they could not rely on the British administration for protection from these gangs, the Jewish leadership created the Haganah to protect their farms and [[Kibbutz]]im. In addition to guarding Jewish communities, the role of the Haganah was to warn the residents of and repel attacks by Palestinian Arabs. In the period between 1920–1929, the Haganah lacked a strong central authority or coordination. Haganah "units" were very localized and poorly armed: they consisted mainly of Jewish farmers who took turns guarding their farms or their [[kibbutz]]im. Following the Arab [[1929 Palestine riots|massacres of 1929]], the Haganah's role changed dramatically. It became a much larger organization encompassing nearly all the youth and adults in the Jewish settlements, as well as thousands of members from the cities. It also acquired foreign arms and began to develop workshops to create [[hand grenade]]s and simple military equipment, transforming from an untrained militia to a capable underground army.
-The predecessor of Haganah was the [[Ha-Shomer]] (Guild of Watchman) established in [[1909]]. It was a small group of [[Jewish immigration in Palestine|Jewish immigrants]] who guarded settlements for an annual fee. At no time did the group have more than 100 members.
+[[Image:Haganah.jpg|right|thumb|300px|Haganah members in training (1947)]]
-The [[Arab]] riots of [[1920]] and [[1921]] made it clear to the Jewish leadership that Jewish farmers and settlements need protection from the Arabs. It was clear that the British had no desire to confront the Arabs over the Arab attacks on the Jews in Palestine. The Jewish leadership decided that the Jews need to rely on themselves for protection, and so the Haganah came into existence. The role of the Haganah was to guard the Jewish Kibbutzim and farms, to warn the residents of the Arab attacks, and to repel the attackers. In the period between 1920-1929 the Haganah lacked a strong central authority or coordination, Haganah "units" were very localized and poorly armed, they consisted mainly of Jewish farmers who took turns guarding their farms or their Kibbutzim. Following the Arab riots of [[1929]], that left 133 [[Jew]]s dead and led to the ethnic cleansing of all Jews from the city of Hebron, the Haganah's role changed dramatically. It became a much larger organization encompassing nearly all the youths and adults in the settlements, as well as thousands of members from the cities. It also acquired foreign arms and began to develop workshops to create [[hand grenade]]s and simple military equipment. It went from being an untrained militia to a capable army.
-In [[1936]] the Haganah fielded 10,000 mobilized men along with 40,000 reservists. During the [[Great Uprising]] [[1936]]-[[1939]], it participated actively to protect British interests and to quell Arab insurgence. Although the British administration didn't officially recognize the Haganah the British Security Forces cooperated with it by forming the [[Jewish Settlement Police]], [[Jewish Auxiliary Forces]] and [[Special Night Squads]]. The battle experience gained in the Great Uprising was to become very useful in the [[1948 Arab-Israeli war]] [[1947]]-[[1949]].
+In 1936 the Haganah fielded 10,000 mobilized men along with 40,000 reservists. During the [[1936-1939 Arab revolt in Palestine]], it participated actively to protect British interests and to quell Arab rebellion using the [[FOSH]], and then [[HISH]] units. Although the British administration did not officially recognize the Haganah, the British security forces cooperated with it by forming the [[Jewish Settlement Police]], [[Jewish Auxiliary Forces]] and [[Special Night Squads]], which were trained and led by Colonel [[Orde Wingate]]. The battle experience gained during this time was to become very useful in the [[1948 Arab-Israeli war]].
+Many Haganah fighters objected to the official policy of [[havlagah]] (restraint) that Jewish political leaders (who had become increasingly controlling of the Haganah) had imposed on the militia. Fighters had been instructed to only defend communities and not initiate counter attacks against Arab gangs or their communities. This policy appeared defeatist to many who believed that the best defense is a good offense and, in 1931, the most militant elements of the Haganah splintered off and formed the ''Irgun Tsva'i-Leumi'' (National Military Organization), better known as "[[Irgun]]" (or by its Hebrew acronym, pronounced "Etsel"). In 1940, the Irgun also split over the issue of whether or not to attack the British during World War II and their off-shoot became known as the "[[Lehi (group)|Lehi]]" (Hebrew acronym of ''Lochamei Herut Yisrael'', standing for ''Fighters for the Freedom of Israel'', and also known by the British as the "Stern Gang" after its leader, [[Abraham Stern]]).
-In [[1937]], the most right-wing elements of Haganah branched off for the second time and formed Irgun Zvai-Leumi, more known as just "[[Irgun]]". They were discontented with the policy of restraint when faced with British and Arab pressure. Irgun and their off-shoot, the [[Stern gang]] terrorist group, became well-known for their [[clandestine combat]] methods.
+By 1939, the British had severely restricted Jewish immigration to Palestine and were importing Arab labor from other parts of the Middle East. In response, the Haganah created the [[Palmach]] — (the Palmach was actually formed by the British in response to the threat of German invasion by Rommel's forces. It went underground after it felt betrayed by the British at the end of 1942 following Rommel's defeat) the Haganah's elite strike force, which also organized illegal Jewish immigration to Palestine. Approximately 100,000 Jews were brought to Palestine in over one hundred ships during the final decade of the [[Ha'apala]]. The Haganah also organized demonstrations against British immigration quotas.
-To appease the Arabs, the British severely restricted Jewish immigration to Palestine in 1939. In response, Haganah started to organize illegal immigration and demonstrations against Britain. It set up the "Organization for Illegal Immigration", [[Aliyah Bet]], which worked through bases in [[Switzerland]] and [[Turkey]].
+In 1944, after the assassination of [[Lord Moyne]] (the British Minister of State for the Middle East) by members of the Jewish Lehi underground, the Haganah worked with the British to kidnap, interrogate, and, in some cases, deport Irgun members. This action was called the Saison, or hunting season, and was directed against the Irgun and not Lehi possibly due to the perceived political threat the Irgun presented to [[David Ben Gurion]]'s position of leadership. Future [[Jerusalem]] mayor [[Teddy Kollek]] was later revealed to be the official most responsible, under the code name Scorpion, for turning Irgun activists over to the British authorities. Many Jewish youth, who had joined the Haganah in order to defend the Jewish people, were greatly demoralized by operations against their own people. The Irgun, paralyzed by the Saison, were ordered by their commander, [[Menachem Begin]], not to retaliate in an effort to avoid a full blown civil war. Although many Irgunists objected to these orders, they obeyed Begin and refrained from fighting back. The Saison eventually ended due to perceived British betrayal becoming more obvious to the public and Haganah youth becoming increasingly vocal in their opposition to the policy.
-== Hganah's Terrorism acts ==
+[[Image:Haganah troops on parade.jpg|thumb|right|159px|Haganah troops on parade]]
+The Saison officially ended when the Haganah, Irgun, and Lehi formed the [[Hebrew Resistance Movement]]. Within this new framework, the three groups had different functions, which served to drive the British out of Palestine and create a [[Jewish state]]. As Menachem Begin stated in a 1944 meeting: "In fact, there is a division of roles; One organization advocates individual terrorism (Lehi), the other conducts sporadic military operations (Irgun) and there is a third organization which prepares itself to throw its final weight in the decisive war." This united effort lasted for a total of nine months until the Irgun [[King David Hotel bombing|bombing of the King David Hotel]]'s south wing (then used as a British headquarters). Although the Haganah had sanctioned the operation and the Irgun phoned in two warnings to the British, the hotel was not evacuated and 91 people were killed in the explosion. Shocked by the death toll and worried about the negative image this would generate, the Haganah quickly distanced itself from both the Irgun and Lehi.
+== World War II participation ==
-Early in the morning of April 9, 1948, commandos of the Irgun (headed by Menachem Begin) and the Stern Gang attacked Deir Yassin, a village with about 750 Palestinian residents. The village lay outside of the area to be assigned by the United Nations to the Jewish State; it had a peaceful reputation. But it was located on high ground in the corridor between Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. Deir Yassin was slated for occupation under Plan Dalet and the mainstream Jewish defense force, the Haganah, authorized the irregular terrorist forces of the Irgun and the Stern Gang to perform the takeover.
+[[Image:To-the-flag.jpg|right|thumb|229px|A British recruitment drive poster for the Jewish Brigade from the 1940s reads: "[[Jewish Legion|Soldiers of 1915-1918]]: to the flag!"]]
+Despite the [[1939 White Paper]] which deeply angered the Zionist leadership in Palestine, [[David Ben-Gurion]], then chairman of the [[Jewish Agency]], set the policy for the Zionist relationship with the British: ''We shall fight the war against Hitler as if there were no White Paper, and we shall fight the White Paper as if there were no war.'' The [[Irgun]], however took a more extreme stance starting in 1944 and began bombing British installations.
+In the first years of [[World War II]], the British authorities asked Haganah for cooperation again, due to the fear for an [[Axis Powers|Axis]] breakthrough in North Africa. After [[Erwin Rommel|Rommel]] was defeated at [[El Alamein]] in 1942, the British stepped back from their all-out support for Haganah. In 1943, after a long series of requests and negotiations, the British Army announced the creation of the [[Jewish Brigade|Jewish Brigade Group]]. While Palestinian Jews had been permitted to enlist in the British army since 1940, this was the first time an exclusively Jewish military unit served in the war under a Jewish flag. The Jewish Brigade Group consisted of 5,000 soldiers and was deployed in [[Italy]] in September 1944. The brigade was disbanded in 1946.
-In all over 100 men, women, and children were systematically murdered. Fifty-three orphaned children were literally dumped along the wall of the Old City, where they were found by Miss Hind Husseini and brought behind the American Colony Hotel to her home, which was to become the Dar El-Tifl El-Arabi orphanage.
+All in all, more than 30,000 Palestinian Jews served in the British army during the war.
-Part of the struggle for self-determination by Palestinians has been to tell the truth about Palestinians as victims of Zionism. For too long their history has been denied, and this denial has only served to further oppress and deliberately dehumanize Palestinians in Israel, inside the occupied territories, and outside in their diaspora.
+On [[May 19]], [[1941]] the Haganah created the [[Palmach]] (an acronym for ''Plugot Mahatz''—strike companies), an elite military-like section which focused on providing training to youngsters. It was never large — by 1947 it amounted to merely five battalions (about 2,000 men) — but its members had received not only physical and basic military training, but also acquired leadership skills that, in retrospect, would allow them to take up command positions in Israel's future army.
-Some progress has been made. Westerners now realize that Palestinians, as a people, do exist. And they have come to acknowledge that during the creation of the state of Israel, thousands of Palestinians were killed and over 700,000 were driven or frightened from their homes and lands on which they had lived for centuries. Source: (http://www.deiryassin.org/index.html)
-== World War II participation ==
+== After the war ==
+[[Image:Warning-to-Etzel.jpg|thumb|right|299px|A leaflet signed by Haganah Commander in Tel-Aviv, warning [[Irgun]] not to engage in blackmail and other violent criminal acts, or face severe measures (1947)]]
+After the war, the Haganah carried out anti-British operations in Palestine, such as the liberation of interned immigrants from the [[Atlit camp]], the [[Night of the Trains|bombing of the country's railroad network]], sabotage raids on radar installations and bases of the British [[Palestine police]]. It also continued to  organize illegal immigration.
+On [[May 28]], [[1948]], less than two weeks after the creation of the state of Israel on [[May 15]], the provisional government created the [[Israeli Defense Forces]] which would succeed the Haganah. It also outlawed maintenance of any other armed force.
-Despite the [[1939 White Paper]] which deeply angered the Zionist leadership in Palestine, [[David Ben-Gurion]], then chairman of the [[Jewish Agency]], set the policy for the Zionist relationship with the British: ''We shall fight the war against Hitler as if there were no White Paper, and we shall fight the White Paper as if there were no war.'' The Irgun, however took a more extreme stance and began bombing British installations.
+Famous members of the Haganah included: [[Yitzhak Rabin]], [[Ariel Sharon]], [[Rehavam Zeevi]], [[Dov Hoz]], [[Moshe Dayan]], [[Yigal Allon]] and Dr. [[Ruth Westheimer]].
-In the first years of [[World War II]], the British authorities asked Haganah for cooperation again, due to the fear for an [[Axis]] breakthrough in North Africa. After [[Rommel]] was defeated at [[El Alamein]] in [[1942]], the British stepped back from their all-out support for Haganah. In [[1943]], after a long series of requests and negotiations, the British Army announced the creation of the [[Jewish Brigade Group]]. While Palestinian Jews had been permitted to enlist in the British army since [[1940]], this was the first time an exclusively Jewish military unit served in the war. The Jewish Brigade Group consisted of 5,000 soldiers and was deployed in [[Italy]] in [[September]] [[1944]]. The brigade was disbanded in [[1946]].
-All in all, more than 30,000 Palestinian Jews served in the British army during the war.
-On May 19, 1941 the Haganah created the [[Palmach]] (an acronym for ''Plugot Mahatz''&mdash;strike companies), a military-like section which focused on giving out training to youngsters. It was never big, by 1947 it amounted to only five battalions (about 2,000 men), but its members had received not only physical and basic military training, but also acquired some leadership skills that allowed them to take up command positions as part of Israel's army.
-== After the war ==
+== References ==
+* Bregman, Ahron. ''Israel's Wars: A History Since 1947''. London: Routledge, 2002. ISBN 0-415-28716-2.
-After the war, the Haganah carried out anti-British operations in Palestine. Liberation of interned immigrants from the [[Atlit camp]], the bombing of the country's railroad network, sabotage raids on radar installations and bases of the British police. It also continued its organizing of illegal immigration.
+* Niv, David. ''The Irgun Tsva'i Leumi.'' Jerusalem: World Zionist Organization (Department for Education and Culture), 1980.
+* "Text of the British White Paper Linking Jewish Agency to Zionist Terrorism in Palestine," ''The New York Times,'' [[July 25]], [[1946]], p. 8.
+* Zadka, Dr. Saul. ''Blood in Zion, How the Jewish Guerrillas drove the British out of Palestine.'' London: Brassey's, 1995.  ISBN 1-85753-136-1.
+* Jim G. Tobias,  Peter Zinke. ''Nakam - Jüdische Rache an NS-Tätern''. Konkret Literatur Verlag, Hamburg 2000. 173 Seiten, ISBN 3-89458-194-8 (German, about 1944-1947)
+* Bergman, Ronen. ''Kollek was British informer''. Ynet news. March 29, 2007. [http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3382779,00.html]
+== External links ==
-On [[May 28]], [[1948]], less than two weeks after the creation of the state of Israel on [[May 15]], the provisional government created the [[Israeli Defense Forces]] which would succeed the Haganah. It also outlawed maintenance of any other armed force. Irgun challenged the decision which led to a brief clash between Haganah and Irgun. Eventually Irgun laid down their weapons and [[Menachem Begin]] transformed his militia to a political party, the [[Herut]].
+*[http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/History/haganah.html ''The Haganah'', from the Jewish Virtual Library]
-Famous members of the Haganah included: [[Yitzhak Rabin]], [[Ariel Sharon]], [[Rehavam Zeevi]], [[Dov Hoz]], [[Moshe Dayan]], [[Dr. Ruth Westheimer]]
+*[http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/History/Modern%20History/Centenary%20of%20Zionism/Lexicon%20of%20Zionism#haganah ''Lexicon of Zionism: Haganah'' (Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs)]
+*[http://www.zionism-israel.com/Haganah.htm ''The Haganah: History of the Israeli Underground Defense force'', by the ZIIC]
+*[http://www.palestinefacts.org/pf_mandate_jewish_forces.php ''What is the history of the Jewish Armed Forces in Mandate Palestine?'', by Me'ir Pa'il (Galili Center for Haganah Studies)]
+*[http://www.haganah.org.il Internet Haganah]
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