List of Lehi operations

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The following is a partial list of Lehi operations. Lehi split from the Irgun in August 1940, and dissolved in late 1948.

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Operations by year

1942

1944

1945

1946

1947

1948

Rejected plans

When discussing ways to assassinate the British Army commander in Mandatory Palestine, General Barker, the group considered a bombing, but were having difficulty working out how the bomber would escape. A young disabled woman, who was a member of the group and hosting the meeting at her home, volunteered to do the bombing as a suicide mission. [29] [30] [31] She said "my life is not a life" and "Let my soul die with the Philistines  [ he ]" an expression from the Hebrew Bible that means: after seeing that an enemy cannot be defeated, deciding to take revenge on the enemy and causing both harm to the enemy and one's self to be harmed, sometimes referred to as the "Samson Option". [29] [30] [31] But other members of the group rejected her offer, and she might not have been physically capable of the mission. [29] [31] [30]

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