NEW YORK TIMES, July 29, 1947

• The Sergeants affair hangings - Jews
• re. Acre Prison escapees - Jewish terrorists
• Irgun members - Anti-semitism - British troops

The top of the front page has a one column heading: "PALESTINE HANGS THREE TERRORISTS; HOSTAGES IN PERIL" with subheads. (see images) Always nice to have notable events in history reported in this World famous publication.
Complete with all 44 pages, light toning at the margins, generally in very nice condition.

This historical subject—centering on Irgun members Avshalom Haviv, Yaakov Weiss, and Meir Nakar—holds exceptional significance and extreme rarity as it marks the exact tipping point that ended the British Mandate over Palestine. While contemporaneous international press and British colonial dispatches originally misattributed or misdated early execution warnings to late January 1947 during the high-tension Dov Gruner kidnapping crisis, the actual hanging of Haviv, Weiss, and Nakar took place on July 29, 1947, at Acre Prison, following their capture during the famous Acre Prison break. Documents, archival broadsides, or media artifacts capturing this specific phrasing are exceptionally rare historical items, as they reflect the height of British censorship and war-time framing—labeling as "terrorists" three men who were immediately immortalized in Israeli history as Olei HaGardom ("those hanged on the gallows"). The monumental weight of this event lies in its immediate aftermath: the Irgun's retaliatory execution of two captured British Intelligence sergeants (the "Sergeants Affair") caused severe outrage in Great Britain, irreparably broke public and parliamentary support for maintaining the Mandate, and directly accelerated Britain's decision to withdraw from Palestine and hand the territory over to the United Nations later that year.