Jerusalem Requires Unity
byJerusalem cannot be liberated by small ideological movements or fragmented militias. Only a unified people’s army can succeed at freeing Jerusalem for the Jewish people.
Jerusalem cannot be liberated by small ideological movements or fragmented militias. Only a unified people’s army can succeed at freeing Jerusalem for the Jewish people.
The Leḥi agent is perhaps best remembered for assisting Geula Cohen’s escape from the Jerusalem prison hospital in 1947.
So impressed with the behavior of the two Eliyahus during their trial, University of Cairo student organizers launched demonstrations calling for the Jewish assassins to be pardoned.
A powerful poem from Leḥi fighter Eliyahu Bet-Zuri (English translation to follow the original Hebrew)
Under Gera’s leadership, Leḥi developed a political outlook that applied revolutionary principles to the Jewish people and its struggle for liberation.
It’s difficult to believe that Israel once offered a political option for voters who would today feel torn between Yamina and the Joint List.
One of the fundamental teachings of Yair to his Leḥi comrades was that a freedom fighter doesn’t fight to be free. He is able to fight because he’s already free.
Stern was a soldier and a poet who inspired a liberation movement that restored Jewish independence to our land after nearly 2,000 years.
History is almost always advanced by the visionaries & radicals willing to dream while the herd merely sleeps.
SHI 360’s remix of Yair’s classic חיילים אלמונים (Unknown Soldiers), that became the anthem of the Fighters for the Freedom of Israel (Leḥi) during their urban guerrilla struggle against British rule.