Hebrew sources on Jewish-British warfare in Tel Aviv-Yafo (#137159)
by Elliott Aron Green on September 24, 2009 at 10:10 AM

Here are two recent articles in Hebrew on Jewish-British warfare in Tel Aviv and Yafo in the 1945-1948 period. Prof LeVine might want to read them in order to see a different point of view:

Yosef Evron, "By Conquering Yafo, the Etsel [= Irgun] Thwarted a British Plan to Come Back and Retake the Country," HaUmmah [no. 172; Spring 2008; in Hebrew]

Nir Mann, "A Bold Slap in the Face for the British Fortress in the Heart of Tel Aviv," HaUmmah [no. 166; Winter 2006; in Hebrew]
-- "Slap in the Face" is also a pun on the name LEHI which is an acronym for Fighters for the Freedom of Israel, called the Stern Group and, by the British, the Stern Gang. The FFI was the group that carried out the attacks on the British base in Sarona.
--The British fortress that Mann refers to was the German Templar village of Sarona that formed an enclave on the eastern side of Tel Aviv up to late 1939. Since these ethnic Germans were nearly all Nazi sympathizers, the British confiscated their real estate and other properties throughout the country, arrested many or most of them and eventually expelled them [about 3,000 people] from the country. The British then took the village and made it into a British military base. It is now the HQ of the Israeli armed forces [the Qiryah].