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on January 14, 2006
Marveling at the fabled skyline of the Old City.
A remarkable venue - a Jerusalem landmark and Israel's most famous hotel.
The perennial host to world leaders and celebrities.
The King David Hotel bombing (July 22, 1946) was a bombing attack against the British government of Palestine by members of Irgun ?a militant Zionist group. The Irgun exploded a bomb at the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, which had been the base for the British Secretariat, the military command and a branch of the Criminal Investigation Division (police). 91 people were killed, most of them civilians: 28 British, 41 Arab, 17 Jewish, and 5 other. Around 45 people were injured.
The attack was initially ordered by David Ben Gurion, who was in the United States, but he later changed his mind and ordered the bombing to be cancelled. But Menachem Begin, the head of Irgun, went ahead anyway. Both Ben Gurion and Begin would later become Israeli Prime Ministers.
The attack on the hotel was the largest attack against the British in the history of the Mandate.
on May 19, 2005
on March 1, 2008
