In all, MI5 estimated there were 350,000 displaced persons across Europe whose desperate fates were hanging in the international negotiating balance. Ya’acov Eliav, better known as “Dynamite Man,” was similarly recruited for Lehi in Europe, from where he targeted Britain. Both Revisionist cells received support and training from the Irish Republican Army, which, in the words of one of its members, “would do business with Hitler if it was in Ireland’s good.”[34]
