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Hang in there while we get back on track
/ הודעת לוחמי חרות ישראל. מן המשפט עד התלייה
Min ha-mishpaṭ ʻad ha-teliyah : Hodaʻat Loḥame Ḥerut Yiśraʼel.
1945
This document, titled "From Trial to Hanging," challenges the fairness of the trial of two LEHI members, Eliyahu Ḥakim (1925-1945) and Eliyahu Bet-Tsuri (1922-1945), claiming that the trial, held in Cairo, was rigged by the British. It claims that the British pressured the Egyptian government to carry out the death sentence despite indications that the sentence of at least one defendant would be commuted. The document explains how Bet-Tsuri's request to write a farewell letter to his family was rejected. Both prisoners sang Hatikvah, which would become Israel's national anthem, as the sentence was carried out.
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Jewish Underground Ephemera from Late British Mandate Palestine
These documents capture a fascinating moment in Jewish history, a turmoil-filled “interregnum” of sorts, between the destruction of European Jewry in World War II and the establishment of Israel: the violent fight against the British, efforts to rescue Jewish refugees in Europe and smuggle them into Eretz Israel, diplomatic maneuvering over the end of the British Mandate, the proposed partition of Palestine, and anticipation of a war with the Arab world. But this collection does more than merely capture this moment. It adds nuance and layers to a discourse that can suffer from overly simplified, ahistorical, and context-free narratives about the history of Zionism, Israel, and the Arab-Israeli conflict.
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