Acre Prison break | |
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Part of Jewish insurgency in Mandatory Palestine | |
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Planned by | Irgun |
Commanded by | Dov Cohen † |
Target | Acre Prison |
Date | 4 May 1947 |
Executed by | Irgun |
Outcome |
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Casualties | Nine Irgun members killed, five Irgun members captured (three later executed) |
The Acre Prison break was an operation undertaken by the Irgun on May 4, 1947, in the British Mandate of Palestine, in which its men broke through the walls of the Central Prison in Acre and freed 27 incarcerated Irgun and Lehi members.