David Raziel

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David Raziel

David Raziel (December 19, 1910 - May 20, 1941) was a fighter of the Jew

Jew

A Jew is a member of the Jewish people, an ethnoreligious group that traces its ancestry to the Israelites or Hebrews of the Ancient Near East....
ish underground during the British mandate, and one of the founders of the Irgun

Irgun

Smorgon

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, Vilna district in the Russian Empire

Russian Empire

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, he immigrated with his family at the age of three to British Mandate of Palestine, where his father became a Hebrew teacher at a Tel-Aviv elementary school. When the 1929 Hebron massacre

1929 Hebron massacre

The Hebron Massacre refers to the mass murder of sixty-seven Jews on 23 and 24 August, 1929 in Hebron, then part of the British Mandate of Palestine, by Arabs incited to violence by false rumors that Jews were massacring Arabs in Jerusalem and seizing control of Muslim holy places....
broke out, he joined the Haganah

Haganah

Haganah was a Jewish paramilitary organization in what was then the British Mandate of Palestine from 1920 to 1948, which later became the core of the Israel Defense Forces....
in Jerusalem

Jerusalem

Jerusalem is the capital of Israel and its List of Israeli cities in both population and area, with a population of 747,600 residents over an area of if Positions on Jerusalem East Jerusalem is included....
, where he was studying philosophy and mathematics at the Hebrew University.

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David Raziel (December 19, 1910 - May 20, 1941) was a fighter of the Jew

Jew

Irgun

Smorgon

Russian Empire

1929 Hebron massacre

Haganah

Haganah was a Jewish paramilitary organization in what was then the British Mandate of Palestine from 1920 to 1948, which later became the core of the Israel Defense Forces....
in Jerusalem

Jerusalem

Irgun

Irgun was a militant Zionism group that operated in Palestine between 1931 and 1948. It was established as a militant offshoot of the earlier and larger Jewish paramilitary organization Haganah ....
was established, he was one of its first members, and displayed outstanding military skills.

In 1937 he was appointed by the Irgun as the first Commander of Jerusalem District and a year later Commander in Chief of the Irgun

Irgun

Irgun was a militant Zionism group that operated in Palestine between 1931 and 1948. It was established as a militant offshoot of the earlier and larger Jewish paramilitary organization Haganah ....
. His term as leader was especially marked by violence against Arabs, including a sequence of market-place bombings.

On May 17, 1941 he was sent, with three of his comrades including Ya'akov Meridor, to Iraq

Iraq

Iraq , officially the Republic of Iraq , is a country in Western Asia spanning most of the northwestern end of the Zagros Mountains, the eastern part of the Syrian Desert and the northern part of the Arabian Desert....
on behalf of the British army. On May 20, a bomb from a German

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands....
aircraft killed him and the British officer with him. Meridor returned to Palestine and took over command of the Irgun.

In 1955 his remains were exhumed and transferred to Cyprus

Cyprus

Cyprus , officially the Republic of Cyprus , is an island country situated in the eastern Mediterranean Sea, east of Greece, west of Lebanon, Syria, and Israel, south of Turkey and north of Egypt....
, and only in 1961 was he brought to eternal rest in Jerusalem's Mount Herzl

Mount Herzl

Mount Herzl, , is a hilltop and national cemetery in Jerusalem, Israel named for Theodor Herzl, the founder of modern political Zionism. Herzl's tomb lies at the top of the hill....
military cemetery.

Ramat Raziel

Ramat Raziel

Ramat Raziel is a moshav in central Israel. Located in the centre of the Jerusalem corridor, it falls under the jurisdiction of Mateh Yehuda Regional Council....
, a moshav

Moshav

Moshav is a type of Israeli settlement, in particular a type of cooperative agricultural community of individual farms settlered by the Labor Zionisms during the second aliyah ....
in the Judean Mountains

Judean Mountains

The Judean Mountains, also referred to as the Judean Hills or Hebron Hills and Jibal al-Khalil, is the name for the mountain range of the Judea region upon which Jerusalem and several other biblical cities are located....
is named after Raziel, as well as many streets in Israel bearing his name in commemoration. His sister, Esther

Esther Raziel-Naor

Esther Raziel-Naor was a Revisionist Zionism, Irgun leader and Israeli politician. She was the sister of fellow Irgun leader, David Raziel....
was later a member of the Knesset

Knesset

The Knesset is the legislature of Israel, located in Givat Ram, Jerusalem....
for Herut

Herut

Herut was the major Right wing politics List of political parties in Israel in Israel from the 1940s until its formal merger into Likud in 1988, and an adherent to Revisionist Zionism....
, the party founded by Irgun leader Menachem Begin

Menachem Begin

was the sixth Prime Minister of Israel. Before the establishment of the state, he was the leader of the Irgun, playing a central role in Jewish resistance to the British Mandate of Palestine....
.

Bibliography: The Birth of the Irgun Zvai Leumi, Daniel Levine, Gefen Publishing House Ltd., Jersualem, Israel, 1991, ISBN 965-229-071-8.