Tag: Irgun
Uzzi Ornan, Linguist and Former Irgun Member, Dies at Age 99
Arrested in 1944 for making bombs, Ornan was detained in British prison camps in Eritrea, Sudan and Kenya until Israel achieved independence.
Executed Irgun Fighter’s Tefillin Found After 75 Years
The phylacteries of Dov Gruner, who was hanged by the British in 1947, were identified in the archives of the Begin Center and are on display there during Passover.
NJ Businessman Organizing Aliyah Ship for Israelis Looking to Vote on March 23
Who can resist his infectious enthusiasm?
Forgotten History – The Torah-Underground Nexus
“It is not widely known that the Irgun’s first leader, David Raziel, studied at the Mercaz HaRav Yeshiva in Jerusalem under the spiritual leadership of Rabbi Avraham Yitzhak HaKohen Kook,” Rabbi Yehuda HaKohen, a teacher at Machon Meir Yeshiva, told The Jewish Press.
Yitzchak Navon, Fifth President of Israel, Dies at Age 94
The President of Israel from 1978 to 1983, unlike his predecessors, was born in Israel and unlike his successors, was a respected educator.
Reflections on the UN Partition of Palestine
Arab opposition to a Jewish State of any size was made known by word and deed in the form of terror