Lehi (group)

Lehi also known as the Lechi, an acronym for Lohamei Cherut Israel, which is Hebrew for freedom fighters of Israel was a right-wing Jewish Zionist militia. It was started by Avraham Stern when the Irgun decided to stop fighting the British after Hitler attacked Poland so that they could fight the British while the British were fighting World War II. Yitzhak Shamir later took over the Lechi and ordered the assassination of some British politicians he said were anti-Semitic. David Ben-Gurion said the Lechi were terrorists. After Israel became a country, the Lechi joined the Haganah and Irgun in becoming the Israeli army. A lot of people who were in the Lechi also ended up becoming assassins for the Mossad who would hunt down and kill Nazis.

Lehi (group) Media

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  Logo of the Lehi movement, a historic militant revisionist Zionist movement.

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  Flag of the Lehi movement (blue on white)

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  Lehi commemoration in Petah Tikva. Half-clenched fist, in reference to Psalms 137:5.

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  The 18 Principles of Rebirth, the ideology of Lehi as laid out by Avraham Stern, notes the need to "solve the problem" of the "alien population".

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  Wanted Poster of the Palestine Police Force offering rewards for the capture of Stern Gang members: Jaacov Levstein (Eliav), Yitzhak Yezernitzky (Shamir), and Natan Friedman-Yelin

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  German cover letter from 11 January 1941 attached to a description of an offer for an alliance with Nazi Germany attributed to Lehi.

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  Betty Knouth, Tel Aviv, 24 August 1948

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  Jewish military briefing at Deir Yassin

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  Lehi female fighters in 1948