Nathan Yellin-Mor
Nathan Yellin-Mor ( Hebrew תן ילין-מור, Originally Nathan Friedman , born June 28, 1913 in Grodno ; † February 19, 1980 ) was a leading member of the Lechi underground organization at the time of the British Palestine Mandate . In the 1950s he turned into a radical pacifist and supported negotiations with the PLO .
Life
Nathan Yellin-Mor was the Russian born Grodno and graduated from the Warsaw University of Technology trained as an engineer. In Warsaw he joined the revisionist wing of Zionism and Betar . 1938-39 he was editor of the short-lived Yiddish Warsaw daily Di Tat , which was published by the right-wing extremist organization Irgun . In 1941 Yellin-Mor fled to Palestine and supported Avraham Stern , who broke away from the Irgun and founded his own group, which was named Lechi after his death in 1942 . In December 1941, Yellin-Mor tried to travel to Turkey on behalf of Stern in order to negotiate a mass liberation of Eastern European Jews with representatives of Nazi Germany and to receive the support of the National Socialists von Lechi's struggle from Great Britain. However, he was arrested by the British in Syria and held in Latrun , from where he escaped in 1943. After Stern's death, he became a member of Lechi's three-man management and was responsible for the political area, while Yitzchak Shamir was responsible for the operational area and Israel Eldad for the propaganda. Yellin-Mor led the terrorist activities from Lechi to the founding of the state of Israel and was involved, among other things, in the plans for the assassination of the British Middle East Minister Lord Moyne . Following the murder of the UN mediator Folke Bernadotte , he was arrested by the Israeli police along with several Lechi members and found guilty in court of membership in a terrorist organization, but released after his election to the first Knesset . Soon, however, he rejected the Zionist ideology and together with Uri Avnery founded a political group called Semitic Action ("Ha-Pe'ula ha-Shemit"). The aim of this group was the "detachment of the Hebrew-speaking Israelis from the Jewish diaspora and their integration in the Middle East on the basis of an anti-colonialist alliance with the indigenous Arab population". Yellin-Mor was editor of the newspaper Etgar ("Challenge") of the "Semitic Action", but his political importance waned towards the end of his life.
literature
- Encyclopaedia Judaica , Vol. 16, p. 738
Individual evidence
- ^ Joel Beinin: The Dispersion of Egyptian Jewry: Culture, Politics, and the Formation of a Modern Diaspora . University of California Press, p. 166
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Yellin-Mor, Nathan |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Friedman, Nathan; תן ילין-מור (Hebrew) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Israeli underground fighter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 28, 1913 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Grodno |
| DATE OF DEATH | 19th February 1980 |