Immediately after the war , she began working for '' The Economist '' and '' The Observer '' . In 1946 , she and her husband Geoffrey Hoare were at the scene of the King David Hotel bombing in Jerusalem , which killed 91 people . She later was said to have refused to shake the hand of the Irgun leader Menachem Begin , who many years later became the Prime Minister of Israel , because of his role in ordering the event . By 1950 , she had moved from her base in Cairo to Paris , working for '' The Guardian '' . She started to visit Algeria and developed contacts with the Algerian National Liberation Front . She reported on the Algerian War in the early 1960s
King David Hotel bombing
King David Hotel bombing
Clare Hollingworth