On this day Britons should remember the victims of the Jewish terrorists who bombed the King David Hotel in 1946.The British administrative headquarters for Mandatory Palestine, housed in the southern wing of the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, were bombed in a terrorist attack on July 22, 1946, by Irgun terrorists during the Jewish insurgency. 91 people including Britons died.
The main motive of the bombing was to destroy documents incriminating the Jewish Agency in attacks against the British, which were obtained during Operation Agatha, a series of raids by mandate authorities. It was the deadliest attack directed at the British during the Mandate era (1920–1948).
The Irgun stated subsequently that warnings were delivered by telephone. The British Government said after the inquest that no warning had been received by anyone at the Secretariat “in an official position with any power to take action.”