Acre Prison break | |
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Part of Jewish insurgency in Mandatory Palestine | |
![]() Acre Prison | |
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Planned by | Irgun |
Commanded by | Dov Cohen |
Target | Acre Prison |
Date | 4 May 1947 |
Executed by | Irgun |
Outcome | 27 Irgun and Lehi members escaped, 214 Arab prisoners escaped |
Casualties | 9 Irgun members killed, 5 Irgun members captured killed |
The Acre Prison break was an operation undertaken by the Irgun on May 4, 1947, in the British Mandate of Palestine, in which its men broke through the walls of the Central Prison in Acre and freed 27 incarcerated Irgun and Lehi members.