Talk:Acre Prison siege

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Added reference to Dov Gruner to the introduction.Ashley kennedy3 (talk) 19:09, 5 May 2008 (UTC)

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The following was placed in Acre, Israel:

The citadel of Acre was used by the British as a prison and as a location for a gallows. Many political prisoners, mainly Jewish underground movement activists, such as Zeev Jabotinsky and Shlomo Ben-Yosef, were jailed in the citadel-prison of Acre. Ben-Yosef, an Irgun activist, was the first Jew to be executed under the British mandate.

On May 4, 1947, the Irgun broke into the Acre citadel-prison in order to release Jewish activists imprisoned there by the British. Some 255 inmates escaped, the majority Arab. Twenty-seven prisoners from armed Jewish groups escaped (20 from Irgun, seven from Lehi). In the immediate aftermath of the raid, nine were killed, and five attackers and eight escapees were captured.

Despite the heavy toll in human lives, the action was described by foreign journalists as "the greatest jail break in history." The London Haaretz correspondent wrote on May 5:

"The attack on Acre jail has been seen here as a serious blow to British prestige... Military circles described the attack as a strategic masterpiece."

The New York Herald Tribune wrote that the underground had carried out "an ambitious mission, their most challenging so far, in perfect fashion."

Of the five captured attackers, three who had been carrying weapons were tried and sentenced to death; the other two, minors who were unarmed when captured, received life sentences. Chesdovi (talk) 12:43, 19 October 2010 (UTC)

References

Include a reference to the motion picture Exodus

What seems to be missing here is a section titled "In Popular Culture" which makes reference to the 1960 motion picture with Paul Newman wherein one finds a fine dramatization of the Acre Prison Break Havradim (talk) 08:24, 13 July 2016 (UTC)

@Havradim: Perhaps this section should be deleted since 4 minutes later you created a new section with the motion picture's year. Mcljlm (talk) 16:22, 6 September 2021 (UTC)

Thank you for pointing this out, I removed the duplicate section per your request. Do you have an opinion on adding a link to the movie? Havradim (talk) 09:37, 13 September 2021 (UTC)

@Havradim: I wonder why nobody has commented in the last 5 years. It might be useful. If created the section should first mention Leon Uris' novel and say to what extent the novel and movie description and dramatization are accurate. Are there other references in fictional works? Mcljlm (talk) 05:21, 14 November 2021 (UTC)

I am less familiar with the novel. But if there is a novel connection as well, I think one sentence mentioning everything would suffice. Havradim (talk) 21:37, 14 November 2021 (UTC)

History of Israel category

@Hydromania: This article should not be directly in Category:History of Israel because of the hierarchy History of Israel -> History of Israel by period -> Mandatory Palestine -> History of Mandatory Palestine -> History of Mandatory Palestine by period -> Years in Mandatory Palestine -> 1947 in Mandatory Palestine. Marcocapelle (talk) 06:55, 24 February 2019 (UTC)

How many escaped?

It is written that 27 escaped, but the wanted poster has 29. What is the explanation? Zero^talk 14:35, 2 October 2020 (UTC)