The Saison

The Saison
Part of the Jewish insurgency in Mandatory Palestine
Date November 1944 – March 1945 Location Mandatory Palestine Result Haganah operations against the Irgun halted due to internal opposition Irgun insurgency temporarily halted
Belligerents
Haganah  United Kingdom	Irgun Lehi
Commanders and leaders
David Ben-Gurion Lord Gort	Menachem Begin Yitzhak Shamir
Strength
unknown	unknown
Casualties and losses
	Hundreds arrested

The Saison (short for French: la saison de chasse, "hunting season"; Hebrew: הסזון) was the name given to the Haganah's attempt, as ordered by the official bodies of the pre-state Yishuv, to suppress the Irgun's insurgency against the government of the British Mandate in Palestine, from November 1944 to March 1945.