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2 unusual facts about Avraham Stern


1942 in Mandatory Palestine

12 February - Avraham Stern, the leader of the Lehi underground Zionist group, is assassinated by Briitish Intelligence officers, who storm the Tel Aviv apartment in which he is hiding, tie him up and shoot him.

Avraham Stern

In September 1940, he founded a breakaway militant Zionist group named Lehi, called the "Stern Gang" by the British colonial authorities and by their assistants in the Yishuv establishment.



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