Avni commanded the sappers unit during the second attack on the British intelligence offices in the Russian Compound in Jerusalem on December 27 , 1945 , in which the building was destroyed and seven British policemen and an Irgun fighter were killed . He also took part in the King David Hotel bombing , being one of the senior commanders of the operation , and the bombing of the British Army base at Camp Schneller , personally lighting the fuses on mines that the raiders had set
King David Hotel bombing
King David Hotel bombing
Yosef Avni