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Intermediate Level - ‫מוזיאון אסירי המחתרות‬

The British Occupation

Until1917 the Turks ruled in the land of Israel. The Turkish rule was
hard for the Jews and the Arabs. The Turks were cruel and all the
people in the land of Israel were very happy when the British arrived
in the land in 1917.
The British wrote the Balfour Declaration and there they wrote: "A
Jewish home should be built for the Jewish people in the land of
Israel," but the Arabs in the land of Israel became very angry and
pressured the English to annul the Balfour Declaration. The Arabs
also killed many Jews in Jerusalem and Hebron. Then the English
wrote the "White Paper" and in it they wrote that it is prohibited for
Jews to immigrate to the land of Israel. All the Jews who fled from the
Nazis in Europe could not come to Israel. The Jews started a partisan
war in the land of Israel.
There were three big underground movements that fought the English:
"The Hagana" ("The Defense"), "Etsel" (acronym for "National
Military Organization"), and "Lekhi" (acronym for "Israel Freedom
Fighters"). Many of the Jews who were in these underground
movements were caught and entered the prison in the Russian
Compound.

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