Night of the Beatings

Night of the Beatings
Part of Jewish insurgency in Mandatory Palestine
Location
Planned byIrgun
TargetBritish soldiers
Date29 December 1946; 77 years ago (1946-12-29)
OutcomeBritish soldiers flogged; increased British reprisals and crackdown on Jewish insurgents; eventual abolition of corporal punishment, introduction of capital punishment

The Night of the Beatings (Hebrew: ליל ההלקאות) refers to an Irgun operation carried out on December 29, 1946, in the British Mandate of Palestine, in which several British soldiers were kidnapped and flogged in retribution for a corporal punishment handed down to an Irgun member.