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Irgun|ɪəˈgʊn|
[mod.Heb., organization; in full Irgun Zvai Leumi national military organization (also used).]
Name of a militant right-wing Zionist organization. Hence Irˈgunist, a member of this organization.
1946Koestler Thieves in Night 243 The new organisation, ‘Irgun’, was numerically smaller and organised on the conspiratorial lines of a terrorist underground movement. 1947Ann. Reg. 1946 299 The Irgun Zvai Leumi and the Stern Group had worked with the Hagana High Command in certain of these operations. 1949Koestler Promise & Fulfilment ii. v. 260 A woman of sixty-five, who escorted her grandson, an Irgunist wanted by the police, across Tel Aviv to a safe hiding place. 1959Chambers's Encycl. XII. 398/1 The immediate post-war years saw such Jewish organizations as the Irgun Zvai Leumi and the Stern Gang undertake planned terrorist activities against the mandatory power. 1968P. Durst Badge of Infamy iii. 26 Eichmann..was kidnapped in South America by the Irgun and brought to trial by the State of Israel. 1970Observer 12 Sept. 9/6 Leila Khaled is inspired by the same fanatical devotion..as the Irgun Zvai Leumi and the Stern Group, who fought against the British and the Arabs to establish the State of Israel. 1972Guardian 11 Jan. 11/1 The news agency's stringer was a secret member of the Irgun. 1972Times 23 Sept. 5/1 The district Court here refused a police request to remand Mr. Amihai Paglin, the key strategist of the Irgun Zvai Leumi during British rule in Palestine. |