List of Lehi members

The following is a list of notable Lehi members. Twenty percent of Lehi members were women. ^[1] Many notable Lehi members were originally Irgun members.

Members

Geula Cohen, announcer of the Lehi underground radio station (1948)

• Yaakov Banai, commander of Lehi's combat unit
• Shaltiel Ben-Yair
• Eliyahu Bet-Zuri, executed for his role in the assassination of Lord Moyne
• Geula Cohen, member of the Knesset
• Israel Eldad, leader in the Israeli national camp
• Boaz Evron, left-wing journalist
• Maxim Ghilan, Israeli journalist, author and peace activist
• Eliyahu Giladi
• Uri Zvi Greenberg
• Eliyahu Hakim, executed for assassinating Lord Moyne
• Amos Kenan, writer
• Baruch Korff
• Yitzhak Shamir, Israeli prime minister 1983–1984 and 1986–1992.
• Avraham Stern, founder
• Shimon Tzabar
• Natan Yellin-Mor, member of the Knesset 1949–1951, leftist advocate of peace with Arabs. ^[2]

Commanders

• Juli Torenberg-Elasar, commander of the women's group ^[1]
• Tzelnik Yitzhak "Shimon", commander of Lehi in Jerusalem in 1941-1942 (before Avraham Stern's murder) ^[3]
• Shpilman Anshel "Aryeh", notable commander who left Irgun, and was subsequently involved with many major Lehi operations ^[4]
• Shomron Sovol Tzfoni, intelligence coordinator, head of training department, member of operations headquarters ^[5]

See also

• List of Lehi operations
• Jewish insurgency in Mandatory Palestine
• List of Irgun members

External links

• Lehi biographies and interviews
• Jewish Women's Archive Lehi members

References

1. "Lehi (Lohamei Herut Yisrael) | Jewish Women's Archive". jwa.org. Retrieved 2017-05-30.
2. Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, December 1986, "Portrait of a Mideast Terrorist"
3. "צלניק יצחק – "שמעון" | העמותה להנצחת מורשת לח״י". lehi.org.il (in Hebrew). Retrieved 2017-06-03.
4. "‏שפילמן אנשל – "אריה" | העמותה להנצחת מורשת לח״י". lehi.org.il (in Hebrew). Retrieved 2017-06-03.
5. "שומרון (סובול) צפוני – "צפוני" | העמותה להנצחת מורשת לח״י". lehi.org.il (in Hebrew). Retrieved 2017-06-03.