King David Hotel


1946 saw Jewish terrorists explode a bomb with devastating effect at the King David Hotel. The hotel also housed the British military headquarters. Some 91 people were killed in the atrocity. It helped convince a war weary British public to abandon the Mandate of Palestine.


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