Index: Organizations, L

• Labor Department — Government of Palestine department created in 1942 on R. M. Graves’s recommendation, charged with labour conditions, legislation and union regulation, whose officials largely encouraged Arab trade unions.
• Landau Commission — 1987 Israeli governmental inquiry into General Security Service interrogation, whose guidelines allowed “moderate physical pressure” but not torture, in Dowty’s account.
• League for Jewish-Arab Rapprochement and Cooperation — Organisation formed in 1939 by liberal professionals, intellectuals and Po’alei Tziyon Smol leaders to promote Jewish-Arab understanding and compromise, which Hashomer Hatza’ir joined in 1942.
• League of Nations — The post-First World War international body under whose auspices Britain held Palestine as a trusteeship mandate, propagating the principle of nationality while its Permanent Mandates Committee visualised the Arab mandates as states-to-be, in Banko’s account.
• Lebanese National Movement — Leftist secular pan-Arab Lebanese coalition led by Kamal Jumblatt with which Palestinian groups dealt extensively in the early 1970s, in Parkinson’s account.
• Lehavot Haviva — Kibbutz living on al-Jalama’s lands since 1951 whose members blew up the village’s houses in 1953 to defeat a Supreme Court return order, in Manna’s account.
• Les Grands Magasins Cicurel et Oreco — The Cicurel family’s Cairo department store chain, Egypt’s largest and most fashionable, whose passage from approved “national store” (1921–22) to sequestration (1956) Beinin uses to figure the whole community’s transformation.
• Likud — Israel’s major right-wing party, the Herut-led alliance whose 1977 and 1981 governments supplied Gush Emunim with legitimation and over $1 billion for West Bank and Gaza settlement by the end of 1984, in Lustick’s account.
• Local Call — Outlet that partnered with +972 Magazine on the November 30, 2023 bombing investigation.