On July 22, 1946, members of the Jewish defense organization the Irgun bombed the British administrative headquarters in Palestine, based in the King David Hotel in Jerusalem. 

Ninety-one people were killed; among them were twenty-eight British, forty-one Arabs, and seventeen Jews.  

The Irgun’s goal was to drive the British out of Palestine. The British did decide to withdraw six months later, when they turned Palestine over to the United Nations.