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Yaakov Weiss ( Hebrew : יעקב וייס ; 15 July 1924 – 29 July 1947) was a Hungarian Jew born in Czechoslovakia and member of the Irgun , a Jewish guerrilla organization in Mandatory Palestine . After saving hundreds of Jews during Holocaust , in which his own mother died, he illegally immigrated to Palestine, joined the Irgun, and fought the British during the Jewish insurgency in Palestine . He was one of three Irgun members executed for their part in the Acre Prison break , which triggered the Irgun's retaliatory hanging of two British soldiers . Weiss, the last Zionist insurgent to be executed by British authorities in Mandatory Palestine, is memorialized today as one of 12 Olei Hagardom .
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The opening as it stood in 2015
Yaakov Weiss Yaakov Weiss ( Hebrew ;יעקב וייס; July 15, 1924 - July 29, 1947) was a Czech Jew and member of the Irgun Jewish guerrilla organization in Mandatory Palestine . After saving hundreds of Jews during Holocaust , he illegally immigrated to Palestine, joined the Irgun, and fought the British during the Jewish insurgency in Palestine . He was one of three Irgun members executed for their part in the Acre Prison break , which triggered the Irgun's retaliatory hanging of two British soldiers . He is memorialized in Israel today as one of 12 Olei Hagardom .
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Yaakov Weiss ( ; 1924–1947) was a Hungarian Jew born in Czechoslovakia and member of the Irgun Jewish guerrilla organization in Mandatory Palestine . After saving hundreds of Jews during Holocaust , he illegally immigrated to Palestine, joined the Irgun, and fought the British during the Jewish insurgency in Palestine . He was one of three Irgun members executed for their part in the Acre Prison break , which triggered the Irgun's retaliatory hanging of two British soldiers . He is memorialized today as one of 12 Olei Hagardom .
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The opening as it stood on October 6, 2023
Yaakov Weiss ( ; July 15, 1924 – July 29, 1947) was a Hungarian Jew born in Czechoslovakia and member of the Irgun Jewish guerrilla organization in Mandatory Palestine . After saving hundreds of Jews during Holocaust , he illegally immigrated to Palestine, joined the Irgun, and fought the British during the Jewish insurgency in Palestine . He was one of three Irgun members executed for their part in the Acre Prison break , which triggered the Irgun's retaliatory hanging of two British soldiers . He is memorialized today as one of 12 Olei Hagardom .
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czech jew and member of the irgun jewish guerrilla organization in mandatory palestine
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hungarian jew born in czechoslovakia and member of the irgun
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