Irgun
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- proper noun
- For the later stages, one might expect at least a passing reference to the Irgun.
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Watch on YouTubeThe Hagenah and Irgun and the Stern gang, they were all armed by the Jewish mob.
- The Hagenah and Irgun and the Stern gang, they were all armed by the Jewish mob.
Examples
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The members of the Irgun from 1946-48, however, faced a much less dire situation and had more choices available.
Academic text (2002) -
After Germany's surrender, the Irgun resumed bombing British police and utilities targets.
Academic text (2002) -
I think you're thinking of his father, who was a member of Irgun.
Blog text (13) -
A member of the Irgun (led by former Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin)?
Blog text (3) -
It's Israel, not Iran, which has a government that originated from a terrorist gang (Irgun to Likud).
Blog text (8) -
Ben-Gurion also ordered both the Irgun and the Stern Gang to be disbanded, but he never denounced terrorism as a weapon.
Academic text (2002) -
The head of the Kadimah Party, Tzipi Livni, was born to parents who had been members of the Irgun underground, which fought the British and the Arabs in the years before the state's founding.
Academic text (2010) -
When Bevin began to hint that he would follow a pro-Arab line, the Haganah, the Palmah, the Irgun, and the Stern Gang, in effect, went to war with Britain.
Academic text (2002) -
His political loyalty lay with the far-right Likud Party, with Menachem Begin, who had been in the Irgun, and Itzhak Shamir, formerly of the Stern Gang.
Fiction book (1994) -
In the 1940s, the Irgun carried out operations to promote the establishment of a Jewish homeland in Palestine.
Surface Forms
Etymology
Irgun was the name of a Jewish armed group active in Palestine from 1931 to 1948, and the name comes from the Hebrew word for 'organization', like the English word organize; so the group's name literally meant 'the organization'.