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This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict. Fighters for the Freedom of Israel לוחמי חרות ישראל The hand represents the Lehi salute, with only two raised fingers on the right hand to represent the "If I forget thee / O Jerusalem...may my right hand forget its skill" (Ps. 137:5) pledge. The acronym "Lehi" is written below the ...
October – The Jewish Resistance Movement, a cooperation between the Haganah, Irgun, and Lehi is activated by the Jewish Agency until August 1946. November 1 – Night of the Trains; December 27 – Irgun and Lehi bombings of police stations in Jerusalem and Haifa leave 10 dead and 12 injured.
Eliyahu Giladi (1915 – August 17, 1943) was a Lehi fighter from Transylvania.Giladi was executed in 1943 by his Lehi comrades after he entered into strong disagreements with Yitzhak Shamir and other members of the Lehi movement about how Lehi should act; [1] Giladi was considered too extremist, even by Lehi's standards; in his memoirs, Shamir admitted in 1994 what had long been suspected ...
Flag of the Lehi movement. While under arrest, Stern and the other members of the Irgun argued about what to do during the war. Following his release in August 1940, he founded Lehi in August 1940, initially under a different name, it adopted the name Lehi, a Hebrew acronym for Lohamei Herut Israel, meaning Fighters for the Freedom of Israel, in September 1940. [1]
While the Lehi was not a homogeneous collective with a single political, religious, or economic ideology, [26] the group has nonetheless been described as having its "worldview in the quasi-fascist radical Right", [27] and most Lehi members appear to have been admirers of the Italian Fascist movement. [28] Lehi publications described Jews as a ...
Yaakov Banai (Hebrew: יעקב בנאי) born Yaakov Tunkel, Alias Mazal (Hebrew: מזל; March 30, 1920 – January 7, 2009) served as the commander of the Lehi movement's combat unit. [1] Banai was a senior Lehi member who masterminded numerous military encounters against British and Arab targets during the Mandate period and the 1947–1949 ...
Forward progress was stopped on the Lehi Fire just before 8 p.m. after the fire sparked near Lehi Lane, just north of Highway 193, just after 4 p.m., said Cal Fire’s Nevada-Yuba-Placer unit.
August – The Haganah ceases its cooperation with the Irgun, and Lehi (the "Jewish Resistance Movement") August 13 – A crowd of about 1,000 Jews attempted to break into the port area of Haifa as two Royal Navy ships departed for Cyprus with 1,300 illegal immigrants on board, and a ship with 600 more was escorted into the port. British ...