Tag: 1946
Barclays Bank Building Bombing – Mar 1946
Date: 01/03/1946 Location: Haifa Perpetrators: Irgun Victims: 4 dead, 6 injured What Happened? 1st March 1946: An explosion happened on the 3rd floor of the Barclays Bank building in Kingsway, Haifa. The blast fatally injured 2 people, and four were wounded. The floor contained offices of the Haifa Shipping Agency, the Movements Office for Haifa…
Goldschmidth House Bombing – Mar 1946
Date: 01/03/1946 Location: Al-Quds (Jerusalem) Perpetrators: Irgun Victims: 20 dead, 30+ wounded What Happened? Militants of the Irgun Zvai Leumi used a Bren light machine gun on King George Avenue (a high-security zone) in Jerusalem, opposite the Yeshuron Synagogue. The indiscriminate firing was a distraction to lure the local police’s attention away from an explosive-laden…