Irgun


[ir-goon] /ɪrˈgun/

noun
1.
a militant Zionist underground group, active chiefly during the period (1917–48) of British control by mandate of Palestine.

militant Zionist organization, 1946, from Modern Hebrew, literally “organization,” in full Irgun Zvai Leumi “national military organization.”

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