Israel Eldad

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Israel Eldad

Israel Eldad (originally Israel Scheib , born November 11, 1910 in Podwołoczyska , Austria-Hungary ; † January 22, 1996 in Jerusalem ; pseudonym Sambatyon ) was a Jewish underground fighter, founding member and chief ideologist of the Lechi organization at the time of the British Palestine mandate .

Life

Eldad attended the Rabbinical School in Łódź and studied philosophy and history at the University of Vienna . He was an active member of Betar and wrote literary and political contributions for various Polish-Jewish organizations. In 1941 he fled from the Soviet occupied Vilna to Palestine , where he became a teacher in Tel Aviv . Soon he became the chief ideologist of the underground organization Lechi and editor of their magazines, the monthly publication He-Chasit ("The Front") and the weekly Ha-Ma'as . While fleeing from British persecutors, he was wounded, arrested and held in the Latrun prison camp for a year and a half until he was freed by Lechi members in the Jerusalem hospital where he was to be treated in 1946. He continued his underground activities until the establishment of the state of Israel .

He then formed the right-wing extremist group Chasit ha-Moledet ("Home Front"), which was declared illegal by the Israeli government after the murder of UN mediator Folke Bernadotte on September 9, 1948. While some members of this organization were arrested, Eldad went into hiding and was able to avoid arrest. Since 1949 he was editor of the magazine Sullam ("The Ladder"), which represented extreme nationalist views. He represented the conquest of an Israel within its maximum “biblical limits” and advocated the expulsion of the local Arab population. In 1950, David Ben-Gurion issued an order to dismiss him from school because of his views; However, Eldad appealed to the Israeli Supreme Court and was won. From 1962 he was a lecturer at the Technion in Haifa for 20 years and at the University of Ariel since 1982.

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SURNAME Eldad, Israel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Scheib, Israel (birth name); Sambatyon (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Jewish underground fighter, founding member and chief ideologist of the Lechi organization
DATE OF BIRTH November 11, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Pidvolochysk , Galicia
DATE OF DEATH January 22, 1996
Place of death Jerusalem