Operation Agatha (sometimes called Black Sabbath) was a series of arrests made in Palestine on Saturday, June 29, 1946. About 2700 individuals were arrested in response to a number of attacks against British forces by the Unified Resistance units Haganah, Irgun and the Lehi. The Chicago Police Department arrests a man A protester is arrested during a demonstration. ... Map of the British Mandate of Palestine. ... Saturday is considered either the sixth or the seventh day of the week, between Friday and Sunday. ... June 29 is the 180th day of the year (181st in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 185 days remaining. ... 1946 (MCMXLVI) was a common year starting on Tuesday. ... The British Army is the land armed forces branch of the British Armed Forces. ... The Haganah (Hebrew: Defense, ×”×’× ×”) was a Jewish paramilitary organization in Palestine during the British mandate of Palestine from 1920 to 1948. ... Irgun poster showing their view of the Land of Israel Irgun (×רגון), shorthand for Irgun Tsvai Leumi (×רגון צב××™ ל×ומי, also spelled Irgun Zvai Leumi), Hebrew for National Military Organization, was a militant Zionist group that operated in the British Mandate of Palestine from 1931 to 1948. ... Avraham Stern Lehi (Hebrew acronym for Lohamei Herut Israel, Fighters for the Freedom of Israel) was a radical self-described terrorist group that had as its goal the eviction of the British from Palestine to allow unrestricted immigration of Jews and the formation of a Jewish state. ...
The King David Hotel was the site of the British military command and their Criminal Investigation Division. The Irgun chose it as a target after British troops invaded the Jewish Agency June 29, 1946, and confiscated large quantities of documents. The information about Jewish Agency operations, including intelligence activities in Arab countries, was taken to the King David Hotel. The King David Hotel, built in Jerusalem with locally quarried pink sandstone, was opened in 1931. ... The Jewish Agency for Israel also known as The Jewish Agency (or sochnut in Hebrew), was previously called the Jewish Agency for Palestine (during the British Mandate of Palestine) is an Israeli organisation that advocates for Israel and is composed mainly, but not entirely, of Jewish people. ...
The King David Hotel bombing is generally regarded as retaliation for Operation Agatha. On July 22, 1946, members of Irgun, a militant Zionist group, exploded a bomb at the King David Hotel in Jerusalem during the British Mandate of Palestine. ...
Agatha Miller, as she was then, was born in 1891, ten years before the end of Queen Victoria’s reign.
Agatha continued to live with her mother at Ashfield; she was working as a nurse in the local hospital.
Agatha received nothing from the publishers for this first novel, although it sold nearly 2,000 copies, which was considered was quite good at that time.
The similarity between the British "Agatha" and the Israeli "Summer Rains" is striking.
The aim of the present operation is, ostensibly, to free the soldier Gilad Shalit, who was captured by the Palestinian underground (consisting of several organizations), in an attack that even an Israeli military expert called "a daring commando action".
A clear aim, which the operation is designed to attain by simple means: breaking the Palestinian population by the liquidation of its leadership, destruction of its infrastructure and cutting off of food supplies, medicines, electricity, water and sanitary services - not to mention employment.
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