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In late 1947, Britain announced it would terminate its Mandate in Palestine by May 1948. On 29 November 1947 the UN adopted Resolution 181 to partition Palestine into Jewish and Arab states to take effect with the end of the Mandate . Violence between Jewish and Arab communities quickly escalated into civil war. The Jewish Yishuv’s main defense force, the HaganahHaganah Full Description:The primary Jewish paramilitary organization during the British Mandate. It evolved from a decentralized defense force into a conventional army, eventually forming the core of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) after independence. The Haganah (“The Defense”) was the military wing…