Definition of Haganah

1. Noun. The clandestine military wing of the Jewish leadership during the British rule over the mandate of Palestine from 1920 to 1948; became the basis for the Israeli defense force.

Generic synonyms: Force, Military Force, Military Group, Military Unit
Geographical relationships: Israel, Sion, State Of Israel, Yisrael, Zion

Lexicographical Neighbors of Haganah

Haemulon
Haemulon album
Haemulon aurolineatum
Haemulon macrostomum
Haemulon malanurum
Haemulon parra
Haenel's symptom
Haff disease
Haffkine's vaccine
Hafidh
Hafnia
Haftarah
Haftorah
Hag.
Hagada
Haganah
Hagar
Hagedorn needle
Hageman
Hageman factor
Hagemann factor
Hagerstown
Haggada
Haggadah
Haggai
Hagia Sophia
Hagiographa
Haglund's deformity
Haglund's disease

Literary usage of Haganah

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Truth from the "Zog Bog" by Gyeorgos Ceres Hatonn (1993)
"The Mossad took over from the haganah in 1937 all the dirty business of kidnapping, ... Thus freed of these chores, the haganah intensified its bombing of ..."

2. NBC Handbook of Pronunciationby James Frederick Bender, National Broadcasting Company, inc by James Frederick Bender, National Broadcasting Company, inc (1834)
"... corpus habergeon habiliment habitat habitué Habsburg hacienda hackney Hadassah hadj hadji Hadrian Haeckel haematite haemoglobin haganah Hagar Hagen, ..."

3. Public Utilities Reports by Henry Clifford Spurr, Ellsworth Nichols, Public Utilities Reports, inc (1918)
"Halford Erickson, a valuation engineer and rate expert, of the firm of haganah & Erickson, of Chicago, testified for the ..."

4. Assessing the Soviet Threat: The Early Cold War Years edited by Woodrow J. Kuhns (1999)
"... have already had considerable success penetrating the Stern Gang, Irgun, and, to a lesser extent, haganah. ..."

5. Refugees Into Citizens: Palestinians and the End of the Arab-Israeli Conflict by Donna E. Arzt (1997)
"Did the haganah (the semiofficial Jewish defense force) and Jewish terrorist groups such as the Irgun "encourage" them to leave or outright conduct an ..."

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