On 22 February 1948 , supporters of Mohammad Amin al-Husayni organized , with the help of certain British deserters , three attacks against the Jewish community . Using car bombs aimed at the headquarters of the pro-Zionist '' Palestine Post '' newspaper , the Ben Yehuda St. market and the backyard of the Jewish Agency 's offices , they killed 22 , 53 and 13 Jewish people respectively , and injured hundreds . In revenge , Lehi put a landmine on the railroad track in Rehovot on which a train from Cairo to Haifa was travelling , killing 28 British soldiers and injuring 35 . This would be copied on 31 March , close to Caesarea Maritima , which would lead to the death of forty people , injuring 60 , who were , for the most part , Arab civilians
Ben Yehuda St. market
Ben Yehuda Street bombings
1947–1948 civil war in Mandatory Palestine