Shmuel Tamir

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Shmuel Tamir

Shmuel M. Tamir (born Shmuel Katzenelson on 10 March 1923, died 29 June 1987) was a prominent Israel

Israel

Israel officially the State of Israel , is a country in the Middle East located on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. It borders Lebanon in the north, Syria in the northeast, Jordan in the east, and Egypt on the southwest, and contains geographically diverse features within its relatively small area....
i independence fighter, lawyer, Knesset

Knesset

The Knesset is the legislature of Israel, located in Givat Ram, Jerusalem....
member from 1965 to 1980, and Minister of Justice in the government of 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....
from 1977 until 1980

enelson joined the Irgun

Irgun

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Shmuel M. Tamir (born Shmuel Katzenelson on 10 March 1923, died 29 June 1987) was a prominent Israel

Israel

Knesset

The Knesset is the legislature of Israel, located in Givat Ram, Jerusalem....
member from 1965 to 1980, and Minister of Justice in the government of Menachem Begin

Menachem Begin

War for independence

Katzenelson joined 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 ....
in 1938 and after the declaration of the Revolt in February 1944, and took part in operations against British targets, most notably the February 26 1944 attack on income tax offices in Jerusalem. During 1946 he served as Deputy Commander of the Jerusalem District and was in charge of the Irgun Intelligence unit in Jerusalem.

He was arrested by the British several times, and in March 1947 was exiled to Detention Camps

Irgun and Lehi internment in Africa

From 1944 to 1948, Irgun and lehi men being held without trial at the Latroun concentration camp were deported by the British Mandate of Palestine authorities to internment camps in Africa, located in Sembel , Carthago, Sudan, and Gilgil ....
in Africa

Africa

Africa is the world's second-largest and second most-populous continent, after Asia. At about 30.2 million km? including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of the Earth's total surface area and 20.4% of the total land area....
where he finished his Law studies. In the camp he served as the Supervisor who represented the detainees to the British Authorities.

Post-independence

Katzenelson returned home with the last exiles from Kenya on July 12, 1948, after Israeli independence was declared; upon arriving in Israel, he adopted his code name, Tamir (meaning "tall and slender") as his legal name. He had a notable career as a lawyer and conducted several famous political cases, including the Yedidya Segal and Rudolf Kastner

Rudolf Kastner

Rudolf Rezso Israel Kastner was the de facto head of a small Jewish organization in Budapest known as the Va'adat Ezrah Vehatzalah , or Aid and Rescue Committee, during the Nazism occupation of Hungary in World War II....
trials.

He was one of the founders of Menachem Begin

Menachem Begin

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....
party, but left in 1952. He returned to the party in 1964, and in 1965 was elected

Israeli legislative election, 1965

Elections in Israel for the sixth Knesset were held in Israel on 1 November, 1965. Voter turnout was 80.4%....
to the Knesset on the party's list.

In 1966 he was expelled from the party, and together with two others, formed the Free Centre

Free Centre

The Free Centre was a List of political parties in Israel in Israel, and is one of the ancestors of the modern-day Likud....
. He was re-elected in 1969, and again in 1973, by which time the party had merged into Likud

Likud

Likud is the major center-right List of political parties in Israel in Israel. It was founded in 1973 by Menachem Begin, largely as the "direct ideological descendant" of the Herut, in an alliance with several other right-wing and liberal parties....
. He resigned from the Knesset in January 1977, and soon after joined the new centrist party, the Democratic Movement for Change

Democratic Movement for Change

The Democratic Movement for Change , commonly known by its Hebrew acronym Dash was a short-lived and initially highly-successful centrist List of political parties in Israel in Israel....
(Dash). He was returned to the Knesset in the 1977 elections

Israeli legislative election, 1977

The Elections in Israel for the ninth Knesset were held on 17 May 1977. The dramatic shift in Israeli politics caused by the outcome led to it becoming known as "the revolution" , a phrase coined by TV anchor Haim Yavin when he announced the election results live on television with the words "Ladies and gentlemen - revolution!" ....
on Dash's list, and was appointed Minister of Justice in the Begin government

Eighteenth government of Israel

The eighteenth government of Israel was formed by Menachem Begin on 20 June 1977, following the Israeli legislative election, 1977. It was the first government in Israeli political history led by a right-wing party, with the coalition consisting of Begin's Likud , the National Religious Party and Agudat Israel....
. As Dash disintegrated, Tamir joined the Democratic Movement

Democratic Movement (Israel)

The Democratic Movement was a short-lived List of political parties in Israel in Israel formed in the aftermath of the spectacular breakup of Democratic Movement for Change....
, before leaving to sit as an independent MK. He resigned from the cabinet

Cabinet of Israel

The Cabinet of Israel is a formal body composed of government officials chosen and led by a Prime Minister of Israel. Its composition must be approved by a vote in the Knesset....
in August 1980, and lost his seat in the 1981 election

Israeli legislative election, 1981

Elections in Israel for the tenth Knesset were held in Israel on 30 June 1981. Despite last minute polls suggesting a victory for Shimon Peres's Alignment , Menachem Begin's Likud won by just one seat.Voter turnout was 77.8%....
.

Familial relations

Shmuel was the son of Reuven Katzenelson, a member of the Jewish Legion

Jewish Legion

The Jewish Legion was the name for five battalions of Jewish volunteers established as the British Army's 38th through 42nd Battalions of the Royal Fusiliers....
and Joseph Trumpeldor

Joseph Trumpeldor

Joseph Trumpeldor , was an early Zionism activist, notable for helping organize the Zion Mule Corps and bringing Jewish immigrants to Palestine....
's sergeant and companion in the Battle of Gallipoli

Battle of Gallipoli

The Gallipoli Campaign took place at Gallipoli peninsula in Turkey from 25 April 1915 to 9 January 1916, during the World War I. A joint British Empire and French operation was mounted to capture the Ottoman Empire capital of Constantinople , and secure a sea route to Russia....
, and the nephew of Joseph Katzenelson, a companion of Ze'ev Jabotinsky and one of the Irgun's two Chiefs of Illegal Immigration and Avraham Katznelson

Avraham Katznelson

Dr Avraham Katznelson was a Zionism political figure in British Mandate of Palestine and a signatory of the Declaration of Independence ....
, one of the signatories of the Israeli declaration of independence.