Abraham Stern was captured, tried, and hung for murder, and Yizhernitzky, who took the cover of "Rabbi Shamir," was his successor, if my memory is right. He took the name Shamir permanently when he got a government position (it's a tradition there for government personnel, especially elected officers, to use a Hebrew name).
the murders of Lord Moyne (1944 November 6)
There is an excellent book on the Moyne assassination, I suspect it is long out of print, called The Deed. It is quite sympathetic to the young Sternists who carried out the attack. Shamir, of course, figures in the story. Had the British caught him he would certainly have hung and be forgotten today (the fate of his operatives).
and Count Bernadotte (1948 September 17).
Yeah, that one slipped my mind. And I just wrote that "there was a military nexus on his attacks." Bernadotte was an innocent diplomat.
You should also mention that he was one of the authors of the infamous von Pfaffen Memorandum of Januaty 1941
I haven't ever heard of this (and as you see, I am interested in pre-Independence and War of Independence activity in Israel). It sounds rather unlike him -- he and Begin were right-wing, but in the Israeli context they are like American cold-war liberals... can you provide link or a tip to a book that sources this? It strains credulity.
not a very nice guy
Not in the 1940s, no. When the British executed the Moyne assassins, he executed British hostages. He did mellow with age. Otherwise, he'd never have won election in Israel, IMHO. The Israelis (and AF Vet, I mean the Labour Party, Ben-Gurion, elected Government of Israel!) had a price on his head in 1948, too.
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