| Night of the Beatings | |
|---|---|
| Part of Jewish insurgency in Mandatory Palestine | |
| Location | |
| Planned by | Irgun |
| Target | British soldiers |
| Date | 29 December 1946 |
| Outcome | British soldiers flogged; increased British reprisals and crackdown on Jewish insurgents; eventual abolition of corporal punishment, introduction of capital punishment |
| Casualties | 1 Irgun member killed, four Irgun members captured (three later executed) |
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.