Monday, April 19, 2010

Fomer Underground Fighters at Memorial Day Ceremony

Today is Israel's Memorial Day for the Fallen in all the campaigns for the independence of the state.

I participated in the one held at the Gallows Room at the former Central Jerusalem Prison where Meir Feinstein and Moshe Barazani took their own lives rather than permit themselves to be hanged by the British occupiers.

In the picture below, you can see Yosef Avni, "Abu-Jildah", who fired the Bren gun at Deir Yassin and was in many other operations including the King David Hotel (leaning on his cane), Yonah Artziel of Lechi and Prof. Ra'anan Meridor, widow of Eliyahu Meridor, former Irgun Jerusalem commander (touching her necklace):


The woman in the white hat is Yael Ben-Dov (Chaya) who was in Lechi and attempted an assassination of General Evelyn Barker and was to meet Alexander Rubovitz on the evening he was kidnapped and then murdered:

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