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When Jewish Nationalist Avraham Stern formed an even more bellicose splinter group, the Lohamei Herut Israel (Israel Freedom Fighters) in 1940, Shamir promptly enlisted and began acting on Stern's assumption that Zionism's principal foe was not Germany but Britain. He soon became a leader of the notorious, sometimes ruthless "Stern Gang," which in 1944 assassinated the British resident minister in Cairo, and is believed to have committed the 1948 murder of Swedish U.N. Mediator Folke Bernadotte. Twice Shamir was imprisoned by the British, and twice he escaped. In 1941 he stole out of detention, grew...
During a session of the Israeli-Lebanese troop-withdrawal talks in the northern Israeli town of Qiryat Shemona last week, the chief Israeli military delegate, Major General Avraham Tamir, suddenly turned to top U.S. Negotiator Morris Draper, who is attending the negotiating sessions. Looking Draper straight in the eye, the General said in a loud and angry voice, "Nobody is going to influence us on matters of our defense. We will do what we please...
...charged that the Prime Minister's office had figured in the obstruction of the security service's investigation of the attempted assassinations of three West Bank mayors last June. As a result, the Star claimed that the head of the General Security Service (known as Shin Bet), Avraham Achituv, had resigned. Israeli newspaper reports about the Star story inspired an angry Knesset debate as well as protest demonstrations outside Begin's residence. Israel's attorney general last week announced that Halevy "may have committed a prima facie violation of Israeli law by publishing the name...
...When Avraham Achituv, 54, chief of Shin Bet, learned of the evidence, he allegedly asked Begin for permission to investigate further, using surveillance and wiretap methods. Begin said no. His reason, according to the Star: the police were carrying out a full investigation. Later, the newspaper reported, Achituv learned to his surprise that the police had been told that Shin Bet was in charge...
...white Mercedes taxi, killing its occupants. Setting off down the highway toward Tel Aviv, they met a bus on its way to Haifa. They fired at the bus, wounding its driver and some passengers and forcing it to a stop. One of the passengers on the bus was Avraham Shamir, 42, who was returning to his home in Haifa from a visit to the stalactite caves near Jerusalem. After first ordering everyone off the bus, said Shamir, the terrorists "ordered us all back on, turned the bus around by crossing the traffic island dividing the highway, and headed southward, yelling...