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The Haganah was founded in 1920, and then the Haganah B seceded from it in 1931 led by Abraham Tahomi who tried in 1937 to return the original Haganah. This resulted in secession of Irgun in 1937 led by David Razi’el and Abraham Shtirn. However, the outbreak of the World War II in 1939 resulted in disputes between Razi’el the leader of Irgun who support alliance with Britain just like the Jewish agency on the one hand and his deputy Shtirn who preferred to ally with Germany. Consequently, Shtirn seceded from Razi’el and established “Irgun in Isreal” in 1940. This organization considered Britain as a first enemy. Accordingly, it was chased by all. Most of the leaders of this organization were killed by the British intelligence that assassinated Shtrin in 1942. Some leaders of the organization such as Yitzhaq Shamir tried to save it late 1942. He escaped from prison to re-organize it when it was named Yahya. It carried out some operations. One of these operations was assassinating the British minister of settlements Lord Muin in 1944 in Cairo. After assassination, this organization agreed with the Haganah to unite in order to gain time and to avoid any annihilation by the latter that tried to annihilate Irgun as a result of killing Muin instead of Yahya. In spite of being minor, this organization tried to deceive the two major organizations, i.e. Haganah and Irgun by promising them to unite if threatened to dissolve. The organization contributed to the Hebrew disobedience movement that was led by the Haganah against the White Paper of 1939. It tried to bridge the gap between Haganah and Irgun. It also carried out some operations in the disobedience movement that enabled it to get equipment and arm its members. As a result of increase of Hebrew disobedience, the British forces carried out the Black Saturday and Shark campaigns. They arrested Shamir and some leaders of Yishuv. The Haganah withdrew from disobedience movement. Yahya and Irgun continued in their operations against Britain. When the United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine was issued in 1947, Yahya opposed it. They also considered that Arabs are the first enemy. They committed several crimes; one of these was Deir Yassin massacre in 1948. This massacre led to displace.
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