Havlagah

The 1936–1939 Arab revolt in Palestine . A Jewish bus equipped with wire screens to protect against rock and grenade throwing HaHavlagah ( , "The Restraint") was a strategic policy used by the Haganah members with regard to actions taken against Arab groups who were attacking the Jewish settlement during the British Mandate of Palestine . Its core principles were fortification and abstention from taking revenge on Arabs by attacking innocent civilians. The political leadership and many leftwing Zionist groups supported the Havlagah policy.

The 1936–39 Arab revolt in Palestine . A Jewish bus equipped with wire screens to protect against rock and grenade throwing. HaHavlagah ( , "The Restraint") was a strategic policy used by the Haganah members with regard to actions taken against Arab groups who were attacking the Jewish settlement during the British Mandate of Palestine . Its core principles were fortification and abstention from taking revenge on Arabs by attacking innocent civilians. The political leadership and many leftwing Zionist groups supported the Havlagah policy.

The 1936–39 Arab revolt in Palestine . A Jewish bus equipped with wire screens to protect against rock and grenade throwing. Havlagah ( , "The Restraint") was a strategic policy used by the Haganah members with regard to retribution taken against Arab groups who were attacking the Jewish settlements during the British Mandate of Palestine . Its core principles were fortification and abstention from taking revenge on Arabs by attacking innocent civilians. The political leadership and many leftwing Zionist groups supported the Havlagah policy.

Zionist paramilitary policy (1920–1948) Example of the Havlagah strategy: a bus used by Jews with mesh covering the doors and windows in order to protect against Arab attacks during the 1936–1939 Arab revolt in Palestine . Havlagah ( ha-Havlagah , lit. ' The Restraint ' ) was the strategic policy of the Yishuv during the 1936–1939 Arab revolt in Palestine . It called for Zionist militants to abstain from engaging in acts of retaliatory violence against Palestinian Arabs in the face of Arab attacks against Palestinian Jews , and instead encouraged the Jewish community to respond to the attacks through non-violent means , such as by fortifying their settlements. The policy was supported by the Yishuv's political leadership and many left-wing Zionists . It was adopted by Haganah , the main Zionist paramilitary in Mandate Palestine , as an official operational strategy. On the other hand, Irgun , Lehi , and other like-minded Zionist paramilitaries rejected the policy and engaged in indiscriminate violence against the Arab community.