Jewish Resistance Movement

תנועת המרי העברי Jewish Resistance Movement
Active	1945-1946
Country	Yishuv, Mandatory Palestine
Role	Defense of Jewish settlements
Disbanded	August 1946
Commanders
Notable commanders	Moshe Sneh Yisrael Galili Nathan Yellin-Mor Menachem Begin

The Jewish Resistance Movement (Hebrew: תנועת המרי העברי‎‎, Tnu'at HaMeri HaIvri, literally Hebrew Rebellion Movement), also called United Resistance Movement (URM), was an alliance of the Zionist paramilitary organizations Haganah, Irgun and Lehi in the British Mandate of Palestine. It was established in October, 1945, by the Jewish Agency and activated for some ten months, until August, 1946. The alliance coordinated acts of sabotage and terrorist attacks against the British authorities.

The Zionist Movement had high hopes for the new Labour administration in Britain, newly elected after war. However, it continued to apply the policies laid down in the White Paper of 1939 which included restrictions on Jewish immigration to Palestine.

Negotiations began for the formation of the movement in August 1945 at the behest of the Haganah leaders, Moshe Sneh and Israel Galili. At the end of October of the same year, an agreement was signed forming the "Jewish Resistance Movement". The leadership of the new movement included four representatives: Two from the Haganah (Sneh and Galili), a representative from the Irgun (Menachem Begin) and a representative from Lehi (Nathan Yellin Mor).

In order to coordinate the activities of the groups, a civilian committee known as "Committee X" was made up of six members, representatives of the various political stream, (including Levi Eshkol). The operations board, who approved operations plans, was made up of Yitzhak Sadeh (of the Palmach), Eitan Livni (of the Irgun) and Yaakov Eliav (1917–1985) (of the Lehi).

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