Nathan Yellin-Mor

Nathan Yellin -Mor (originally Nathan Friedman, * 1913 in Grodno, † 19 February 1980) was at the time of the British Palestine Mandate, a leading member of the underground organization Lehi. In the fifties, he was transformed into a radical pacifists and supported negotiations with the PLO.

Life

Nathan Yellin -Mor was born in the Russian Grodno and graduated from Warsaw University of Technology training as engineer. In Warsaw, he joined the revisionist wing of Zionism and Betar. 1938-39 he was editor of the short-lived Yiddish Warsaw daily Di deed which was published by the right-wing Irgun. Yellin -Mor in 1941 fled to Palestine and supported Avraham Stern, the breaking away from the Irgun and founded his own group, which received the name Lehi after his death in 1942. In December 1941, Yellin -Mor was trying to travel to Turkey on behalf of Stern, to conduct negotiations with representatives of Nazi Germany through a mass liberation of Eastern European Jews and to receive the support of the National Socialists of Lechis Battle of Britain. However, he was arrested by the British in Syria and imprisoned in Latrun, from where he could break out in 1943. After the death of star he was a member of the three-headed leadership of Lehi and was responsible for the political sphere, while Yitzhak Shamir was responsible for the operational and Israel Eldad for propaganda. Yellin -Mor directed the terrorist activities of Lehi to the founding of Israel and was involved among other things in the planning of the assassination of British Middle East Minister Lord Moyne. After the assassination of UN mediator Folke Bernadotte, he was arrested by the Israeli police along with several members of Lehi and found guilty on trial for membership in a terrorist organization, but released after his election to the first Knesset. Soon, however, he rejected the Zionist ideology and, together with Uri Avnery, a political group called the Semitic Action ( "Ha- ha - Pe'ula schemit "). This group called the " separation of the Hebrew-speaking Israelis of the Jewish Diaspora and their integration in the Middle East on the basis of an anti-colonial alliance with the indigenous Arab population." Yellin -Mor was editor of the newspaper Etgar ( " challenge ") of the " Semitic action," its political importance waned, however, towards the end of his life.