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unusual facts about Lehi, son of Helaman


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Lehi, son of Helaman, another prophet in the Book of Mormon of the late 1st century BC


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.

1946 in Mandatory Palestine

25 February – Irgun and Lehi members blow up dozens of British military aircraft in airports at Lydda, Qastina and Sirkin.

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.

David Shaltiel

In 1948, he was the local Haganah district commander when the village was attacked by Irgun and Lehi Jewish fighters despite a non-aggression pact signed between the Zionists and the Mukhtar of the village, the villagers wanting to remain neutral in the war.

IProvo

On May 6, 2008, Mayor Lewis Billings announced a proposed sale of the iProvo network to Broadweave Networks of Lehi, UT.

Kiryat Shmuel, Jerusalem

Members of the Lehi and Etzel Jewish underground were tried here, and some were sentenced to death.

Lehi, Utah

In one scene, the Reverend Shaw Moore (John Lithgow) and his wife Vi Moore (Dianne Wiest) keep a wary eye on the proceedings while standing in a field some distance away.

This first started with the lengthy construction of a DRAM microchip plant by Micron Technology which eventually evolved into a NAND flash memory business called IM Flash Technologies which was founded by both Micron and the Intel Corporation with headquarters in Lehi.

Nephi, son of Helaman

In 91 ROJ (1 BC), Nephi turned "the plates of brass, and all the records which had been kept, and all those things which had been kept sacred from the departure of Lehi out of Jerusalem" over to his eldest son, also named Nephi.

Operation Kedem

The Irgun force commanded by Yehuda Lapidot (Nimrod) was to break through at The New Gate, Lehi to break through the wall stretching from the New Gate and the The Jaffa Gate, and the Beit Horon Battalion to strike from Mount Zion.

Ophrah Shemesh

Albert was an important Lehi (Fighters for the Freedom of Israel) activist in Iraq, before the creation of the state of Israel.

The Record of Zeniff

Following Lehi's death, his older sons, Laman and Lemuel, rebelled against their younger brother Nephi, who had been appointed by their father as their leader.

Yaakov Banai

Under his direction, dozens of combat operations were planned and carried out, a portion of them as part of the Jewish Resistance Movement during which the three underground movements (Haganah, Irgun, Lehi) joined forces against the British.

Yaakov Heruti

As a Lehi member, Heruti was stationed in Britain and assembled the letter bomb that was sent to Roy Farran.

Zeitler

Yehoshua Zettler (1917–2009), (last name also spelled as Zeitler), the Jerusalem commander of Jewish paramilitary group Lehi


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