David Raziel was a founder of the Irgun in British Mandatory Palestine. Through 2010 the opening said that when the 1929 Hebron massacre broke out, he joined the Haganah in Jerusalem. Today the opening moves directly from his birth to his founding of the Irgun and wartime activity, with the Hebron massacre gone from the opening though the word survives once in the body. A reader today does not learn what prompted his entry into Zionist defense organizations.
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David Raziel David Raziel (December 19, 1910 - May 20, 1941) was a fighter of the Jewish underground during the British mandate , and one of the founders of the Irgun .1Born in Smarhoń (now in Hrodna Voblast , Belarus ), Vilna district in the Russian Empire , he immigrated with his family at the age of three to Palestine, where his father became a Hebrew teacher at a Tel-Aviv elementary school. When the 1929 Hebron massacre broke out, he joined the Haganah in Jerusalem , where he was studying philosophy and mathematics at the Hebrew University . When the Irgun was established, he was one of its first members, and displayed outstanding military skills. In 1937 he was appointed by the Irgun as the first Commander of Jerusalem District and a year later Commander in Chief of the Irgun . His term as leader was especially marked by violence against Arabs, including a sequence of market-place bombings. On May 17, 1941 he was sent, with three of his comrades including Ya'akov Meridor , to Iraq on behalf of the British army. On May 20, a bomb from a German aircraft killed him and the British officer with him near an oil deposit in Habbaniyah . Meridor returned to Palestine and took over command of the Irgun. In 1955 his remains were exhumed and transferred to Cyprus , and again in 1961 to Jerusalem's Mount Herzl military cemetery. Ramat Raziel , a moshav in the Judean Mountains is named after Raziel, as well as many streets in Israel bearing his name in commemoration. His sister, Esther was later a member of the Knesset for Herut , the party founded by Irgun leader Menachem Begin .2
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David Raziel ( December 19 , 1910 - May 17 , 1941 ) was a fighter of the Jewish underground during the British Mandate of Palestine , and one of the founders of the Irgun . Born in Vilna district in the Russian Empire , he immigrated with his family at the age of three to the Land of Israel , where his father became a Hebrew teacher at a Tel-Aviv elementary school. When the 1929 Arab riots broke out, he joined the Haganah in Jerusalem , where he was studying philosophy and mathematics at the Hebrew University . When the Irgun was established, he was one of its first members, and displayed outstanding military skills. In 1937 he was appointed Irgun Commander of Jerusalem District and a year later Commander in Chief of the Irgun. His term as leader was especially marked by violence against Arabs, including a sequence of market-place bombings. On May 17, 1941 he was sent, with three of his comrades, to Iraq on behalf of the British army. The next day a bomb from a German aircraft killed him.
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David Raziel David Raziel (19 December 1910 - 20 May 1941) was a fighter of the Jewish underground during the British mandate , and one of the founders of the Irgun .
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David Raziel ( ; 19 November 1910 – 20 May 1941) was a leader of the Zionist underground in British Mandatory Palestine and one of the founders of the Irgun .
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Irgun leader David Raziel ( ; 19 November 1910 – 20 May 1941) was a leader of the Zionist underground in British Mandatory Palestine and one of the founders of the Irgun .
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Irgun leader (1910–1941) David Raziel ( Hebrew : דוד רזיאל ; 19 November 1910 – 20 May 1941) was a leader of the Zionist underground in British Mandatory Palestine and one of the founders of the Irgun .During World War II , Irgun entered a truce with the British so they could collaborate in the fight against "the Hebrew's greatest enemy in the world – German Nazism".Raziel was released from prison after agreeing to work with the British.He was killed in action in Iraq in 1941.
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fighter of the jewish underground during the british mandate of palestine
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leader of the zionist underground in british mandatory palestine and one of the founders of the irgun
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