Haganah

American  

[hah-gah-nah] / hɑ gɑˈnɑ /

noun

1. the underground Jewish militia in Palestine (1920–48) that became the national army of Israel after the partition of Palestine in 1948.

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Etymology

Origin of Haganah

< Modern Hebrew hagana literally, defense, Hebrew həgannāh

Example Sentences

After World War II, he and his brother were part of a business group that raised $40,000 to buy a ramshackle Chesapeake Bay steamship for the Haganah, a Zionist paramilitary organization.

From Washington Post

The world’s most famous 90-year-old sex therapist turns out, among other things, to have been a Holocaust survivor and a sniper for Haganah.

From Los Angeles Times

He was 12 when he joined the Haganah, the paramilitary force that grew into the Israel Defense Forces after the creation of the state of Israel in 1948.

From Washington Post

The world’s most famous 90-year-old sex therapist turns out, among other things, to have been a sniper for Haganah decades ago.

From Los Angeles Times

A few yards away was the grave of his great-grandfather, who died while fighting for the Jewish Haganah militia in 1938, a decade before Israel was created.

From Washington Post