Eliyahu Giladi

Eliyahu Giladi (1915 – August 17, 1943) born with birth name Albert Green, in Transylvania. Giladi Hebrew name was Eliyahu [1] He was a Lehi fighter from Transylvania, Romania. Giladi was executed in 1943 by his Lehi comrades after he entered into strong disagreements with Yitzhak Shamir[2] and other members of the Lehi movement about how Lehi should act;[3] Giladi was considered too extremist, even by Lehi's standards, because he called for the killing of innocent Jewish civilians and selected Zionist leaders.[4][5]

References

  1. Yehuda, Nachman Ben. Political Assassinations by Jews: A Rhetorical Device for Justice. State University of New York Press. pp. 178, 179.
  2. Frankel, Glenn. Beyond the Promised Land:Jews and Arabs on the Hard Road to a New Israel. Touchstone. p. 31.
  3. Heller, Joseph. The Stern Gang: Ideology, Politics and Terror, 1940-1949. Routledge. p. 113. |access-date= requires |url= (help)
  4. Press, From Associated (1994-01-15). "Shamir Admits Execution During Jewish Underground". Los Angeles Times. ISSN 0458-3035. Retrieved 2017-05-29.
  5. Perliger and Weinberg, 2003, p. 109.


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