Friday morning, July 19, 1946, three men stood and talked in a building in Jerusalem’s Bukharian quarter. These four were briefed first because their plan for a terrorist attack on the hotel required them to arrive first. The other members who were to take part in the attack, the exact number of which is unknown, would gather later.
One of them jumped into a pair of baggy white trousers, wrapped a red scarf around his waist, put on a short red jacket and vest and placed a fez, a traditional Muslim head covering, on his head. Another of those present, a large teenage boy, donned the blue overalls worn by most truck drivers and messengers in Jerusalem at the time. The last men present wore long Arabic blue cloaks and white and red checkered headdresses. They pointed at each other, laughed at the clothes, joked in Arabic and did pirouettes.
At 12:37 on the same day, a bomb that this group of men had placed at the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, located in the Mandated Area of ​​Palestine, went off, killing 91 people. Much of the hotel’s south wing, which housed the British Secretariat, which at the time controlled the area, collapsed, and it took rescuers 2,000 truckloads of rubble over three days to find the dead and survivors. But nothing in this attack was as it seemed. Like everything else in this conflict, making head and tail of the stories and conflicts was and is still challenging.

Sources:
By blood and fire by Thurston Clarke
Bethell, Nicholas (1979). The Palestine Triangle. Andre Deutsch.
Jerusalem – British Beneath the surface Archived April 24, 2009, at the Wayback Machine. The Jerusalem Post. Retrieved September 9, 2023.
Jerusalem – British Beneath the surface Archived April 24, 2009, at the Wayback Machine. The Jerusalem Post. Retrieved April 26, 2009.
Jerusalem – British Beneath the surface Archived April 24, 2009, at the Wayback Machine. The Jerusalem Post. Retrieved April 26, 2009.

Music used in this episode:
Dramatic Suspense: https://pixabay.com/music/suspense-dramatic-suspense-116798/ by https://pixabay.com/users/ashot-danielyan-composer-27049680/
Anuch – Our champion - Music from #Uppbeat: https://uppbeat.io/t/anuch/our-champion
Arabic Dance by Giulio Fazio: https://uppbeat.io/track/giulio-fazio/arabic-dance
Hava Nagila by Music_for-Videos: https://pixabay.com/music/folk-hava-nagila-violin-128866/
Pour Oil - Hanukkah Band (Simu Shemen) - P5 by Soundphenomenon https://www.pond5.com/royalty-free-music/item/143109141-pour-oil-hanukkah-band-simu-shemen
Crying Violin 30 Second Edit by Soundphenomenon: https://www.pond5.com/royalty-free-music/item/108114928-crying-violin-30-second-edit
Traditional Jewish Music: Shalom Aleichem Clarinet Trio by mbanksbenson: https://www.pond5.com/royalty-free-music/item/107349401-traditional-jewish-music-shalom-aleichem-clarinet-trio
Jewish Folk - Oseh Shalom Bimromav -Slow And Dramedy (Violin And Accordion) - P5 by eyeformusic: https://www.pond5.com/royalty-free-music/item/105999167-jewish-folk-oseh-shalom-bimromav-slow-and-dramedy-violin-and

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