ABSTRACT
By 1943, with Irgun permission, over a thousand members had volunteered for the British forces. In 1943 an ultra secret red division, had been formed with a white squad and a black squad, the later combined members who knew Arabic and looked like Arabs for special activities in Arab areas. Later the Irgun produced explosive grenades, Sten guns with wooden stocks, mortars, a variety of mines ignited by glass vials of acid, pressure, or electricity—these had more psychological than military impact. On February 27, 1945, at four in the afternoon, he was slipping toward an Irgun headquarters office in Tel Aviv when an officer of the auxiliary police stopped him—just a few steps from headquarters at Ben Yehuda and Jeremiah streets. As the Jewish Agency waited with increasing impatience for a British initiative and the Irgun reorganized for operations, the London center was transformed.
