Acre Prison break

Acre Prison break
Part of Jewish insurgency in Mandatory Palestine
Acre Prison
Location
Planned byIrgun
Commanded byDov Cohen 
TargetAcre Prison
Date4 May 1947; 77 years ago (1947-05-04)
Executed byIrgun
Outcome
  • 27 Irgun and Lehi members escaped
  • 214 Arab prisoners escaped
CasualtiesNine 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.