Avraham Stern, Polish-Israeli militant leader (born 1907)

Avraham Stern

Zionist leader (1907–1942)

Avraham Stern, alias Yair, was one of the leaders of the Jewish paramilitary organization Irgun. In September 1940, he founded a breakaway militant Zionist group named Lehi, called the "Stern Gang" by the British authorities and by the mainstream in the Yishuv Jewish…