Jews who had come to Palestine during the second immigration wave meet at the home of Yitzhak Ben-Zvi (who will be elected the second president of the State of Israel in 1952) in Jaffa and establish an underground paramilitary group under the name of "Bar Giora Group " (Bar Giora is believed to have participated in the revolt against the Romans in the first century).
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