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The Gatekeepers (Hebrew: שומרי הסף, romanized: Shomrei HaSaf) is a 2012 internationally co-produced documentary film by director Dror Moreh that tells the story of the Israeli internal security service, Shin Bet (known in Hebrew as 'Shabak'), from the perspective of six of its former heads.
In 1948, following the 1947–1948 civil war in Mandatory Palestine, the Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel sparked the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, which resulted in the 1948 Palestinian expulsion and flight from the land that the State of Israel came to control and subsequently led to waves of Jewish immigration from other parts of the Middle East.
The group referred to its members as terrorists [19] and admitted to having carried out acts of terrorism. [14] [20] [21] Lehi split from the Irgun militant group in 1940 in order to continue fighting the British during World War II. It initially sought an alliance with Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany. [22]
The comment was written by the deputy editor, Israel Cohen, who did not know that all of the people responsible were Mapai leaders. [10] Angered by the newspaper's comments, some Haganah leaders sent Ben-Gurion's son Amos to the newspaper office where he slapped the editor, Isaac Lofven, across the face. [10] A nameplate preserved from Patria
Irgun ex-members and sympathizers argue that modern historical accounts in Israel are biased in favor of more established groups like the Haganah. [35] After the bombing, the hotel complex continued to be used by the British until 4 May 1948. It later served as an Israeli headquarters from the end of the 1947–1949 Palestine war until the Six ...
Israeli police officers and a patrol car. Israel Police: a civilian force. As with most other police forces in the world, its duties include crime fighting, traffic control and maintaining public safety. Civil Guard (Mishmar Ezrahi): A volunteer organization of Israeli citizens which assists in daily police work. It is a subdivision of the ...
Amir Avivi, president and founder of Israel Defense and Security Forum, a hawkish group of former military officers, said the generals are obsessed with Netanyahu's downfall and misusing their ...
In 1976, a group of PLO terrorist hijacked an airliner with 83 Israeli passengers and held them hostages in the Entebbe airport in Uganda. Israeli elite SF unit – Sayeret Matkal – went on a complex hostages-rescue operation and managed to save 80 of the passengers, with only one soldier lost, the commander, lt. colonel Yonatan Netanyahu ...