Ran (Haganah unit) explained

Ran was the counter-intelligence service of the Jewish Yishuv in Mandate Palestine.^[1] It was established by Shaul Avigur (Meirov) and Yehuda Arazi (Tannenbaum), the latter a member of the Palestine Police Force.^[1] Arazi joined the police on orders from the Haganah,^[2] and rose to become a police inspector in the Criminal Investigation Department (CID).^{[2] [3]}

Ran's primary aim was to thwart the intelligence-gathering operations of the British, Germans, Italians and Americans.^[1]

Further reading

• Friling, Tuvia (2005). Arrows in the Dark: David Ben-Gurion, the Yishuv leadership, and Rescue Attempts During the Holocaust. University of Wisconsin Press.
• Kurzman, Dan (1983). Ben-Gurion, Prophet of Fire. Simon and Schuster.
• Slater, Leonard (1970). The Pledge. Simon and Schuster.

Notes and References

1. Friling, 2005, p. 28.
2. Slater, 1970, p. 127.
3. Kurzman, 1983, p. 186.