...exiled to a British-run prison camp in British Somaliland (Eritrea), from which he escapes in 1947.

Shamir makes his way to ...

Underground leader Menachem Begin had survived a massive British raid in Tel Aviv by hiding in a tiny cupboard.

His colleague Yitzhak Shamir, who serves as served as Lehi's principal director of operations, had been arrested and ...

...the neighboring French Somaliland (present Djibouti),...

Zionist land purchases have placed nearly one-tenth of Palestine under Jewish ownership, the rest being owned by the government or by Arabs.

The Rothschild-dominated PICA possesses a large proportion of the Jewish-owned land in Palestine by the end of 1947.

The country has two hundred and seventy-seven Jewish rural settlements—fifteen villages (another thirty had become urban in the meantime), ninety-nine moshavim, one hundred and fifty-nine kibbutzim, and four others.

Their one hundred and eleven thousand inhabitants account for nearly twenty percent of the total Jewish population.

Palestine is by now a major trouble spot in the British Empire, requiring some one hundred thousand troops and a huge maintenance budget.

While Zionists press ahead with immigration and attacks on the government, and Arab states mobilize in response, British resolve to remain in the Middle East collapses.

Irgun and the Stern Group react to Arab atrocities—such as the massacre of casualties at the French Hospital in Jaffa—by acts of terrorism deliberately aimed at the civilian population, irrevocably deepening the gulf of hatred separating the two communities.

Arab workers and Jewish workers argue at the Haifa Petroleum Refinery—one of the few places where Jewish and Arab workers work side-by-side—and approximately one hundred and fifty to two hundred men of the First Battalion of Palmach and the Carmelie brigade under the leadership of Hayim Afinuam stage a surprise attack on Baldat al-Shaikh and Hawas, where most of the Arab workers live, on January 31, 1947. 

The attack, which employs grenades and machine guns, lasts from 1:00 to 2:00 AM.

Sixty villagers die, mostly children, women and the elderly; ...

...nineteen Jewish workers lose their lives during reprisals.

Four Irgun youths, searching for British soldiers to serve as retaliatory victims, had been caught with whips in December of the previous year.

One had been beaten so badly that he died, and the other three have been sentenced to death, joining another Irgunist already so sentenced.

The four go to their deaths at Acre bravely singing the Zionist anthem before dawn on April 16, 1947.

The Irgun liberates other prisoners in a stunning attack on the fortress at Acre on May 4, 1947, but two Irgunists are captured, savagely beaten and sentenced to death.

Irgun members kidnap and, in retaliation, hang two young British sergeants, whose dead bodies they had taken care to booby-trap beforehand, on July 30, the day after the condemned Irgunists go to their deaths.