Eliezer Sudit

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Elieser Sudit (born June 4, 1925 , † 2011 ) was an Israeli explosives expert and terrorist. He claimed to have been the author and main perpetrator of the attempted assassination on Konrad Adenauer in 1952.

Life

Sudit comes from Serbia, according to other sources he came to Palestine from Bessarabia in 1936 . He belonged to the Irgun Tzwa'i Le'umi and, according to his own statement, had been a bomb designer in this organization since he was 15. At times he worked as an explosives expert in the Itzchak Sadeh mining company in Beit Nebala . During the British mandate he fought against the British, was arrested and sentenced to 15 years in prison. However, he escaped from Acre prison in 1947 .

In his memoirs, published in Hebrew in 1994, he claimed to have been the author and main perpetrator of the attempted assassination of Konrad Adenauer. He made contact with Menachem Begin in the spring of 1952 after he had called for resistance to the reparation negotiations between Konrad Adenauer and David Ben-Gurion . Sudit then decided, according to his report, to set an example and to commit one or more bomb attacks as a “symbol of anger”. Begin approved his plans and organized a meeting with the Knesset MPs Jochanan Bader and Chaim Landau as well as the former head of the Etzel intelligence service Abba Scherzer, at which it was decided that Sudit should operate from Paris.

The explosive device built by Sudit in Paris was hidden in a tape from the Kleiner Brockhaus and sent to Adenauer. The bomb exploded when examined by an demolition master, fatally injuring him. Sudit and 4 other Israelis were arrested several days later in Paris by the French police, but none of them could be proven to be involved in the attack. Sudit was sentenced to four months in prison because weapons were found in his room. Elie Wiesel reported on the trial in the newspaper Yediot Ahronot .

Sudit's claims, especially those of Begin's direct involvement in the planning of the Adenauer assassination, are controversial.

Elieser Sudit later lived near Tel Aviv .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b E. Hausen, the person responsible for the Adenauer attack died , on: israelnetz.com, November 16, 2016
  2. ↑ Funny twists . Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, June 15, 2006
  3. ^ Sudit self-published his autobiographical work without ISBN. Translated into German, its title is On behalf of conscience .
  4. ↑ Henning Sietz, On behalf of conscience , on: faz.net, June 12, 2006
personal data
SURNAME Sudit, Eliezer
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Israeli explosives expert and terrorist
DATE OF BIRTH June 4, 1925
DATE OF DEATH 2011