Editing Harold MacMichael (section)

==High Commissioner of Palestine==
The next year, he became [[High Commissioners of Palestine|High Commissioner]] of the [[Mandatory Palestine|British Mandate of Palestine]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Kessler |first=Oren |title=Palestine 1936: The Great Revolt and the Roots of the Middle East Conflict |date=2023 |publisher=Rowman & Littlefield |isbn=978-1-5381-4880-8 |location=Lanham MD |pages=xiv, 133}}</ref> In 1942, he was blamed for sending at least 768 Jewish refugees aboard [[Struma disaster|MV ''Struma'']] to their deaths. During his tenure, MacMichael was the target of seven unsuccessful assassination attempts, mainly by the [[Lehi (militant group)|Lehi Group]] (the [[Avraham Stern|Stern]] Gang). In the last, both he and his wife narrowly escaped death in an ambush that the Stern Gang had mounted on 8 August 1944, on the eve of his replacement as High Commissioner.<ref>{{cite book |last=Ben-Yehuda |first=Nachman |author-link=Nachman Ben-Yehuda |title=Political Assassinations by Jews: A Rhetorical Device for Justice |location=Albany, NY |publisher=[[SUNY Press]] |year=1993 |page=204}}</ref>

[[File:ירושלים - פגישת ראש עירית ירושלים מוצטפה אלח'לדי ראש עירית חיפה שבתי לוי, ראש עירית תל אביב ישראל רו-JNF022235.jpg|thumb|High Commissioner Harold MacMichael with mayors in Palestine, 1942. From left: [[Israel Rokach]] (Tel Aviv), [[Mustafa al-Khalidi]] (Jerusalem), MacMichael, [[Omar al-Bitar]] (Jaffa), [[Shabtai Levy]] (Haifa)]]

MacMichael also served a stint as High Commissioner of Malta.