Mordechai AlkahiW
Mordechai Alkahi

Mordechai Alkahi was a member of the Irgun Jewish guerrilla organization in pre-state Mandatory Palestine, and one of 12 Olei Hagardom executed by the British during the Jewish insurgency in Palestine.

Moshe ArensW
Moshe Arens

Moshe Arens was an Israeli aeronautical engineer, researcher, diplomat and Likud politician. A member of the Knesset between 1973 and 1992 and again from 1999 until 2003, he served as Minister of Defense three times and once as Minister of Foreign Affairs. Arens also served as the Israeli ambassador to the U.S. and was a professor at the Technion in Haifa.

Uri AvneryW
Uri Avnery

Uri Avnery was an Israeli writer, politician, and founder of the Gush Shalom peace movement. A member of the Irgun as a teenager, Avnery sat for two terms in the Knesset from 1965 to 1974 and from 1979 to 1981. He was also the owner of the news magazine HaOlam HaZeh from 1950 until its closure in 1993.

Yohanan BaderW
Yohanan Bader

Yohanan Bader, Jan Bader was a Revisionist Zionist leader and Israeli politician.

Menachem BeginW
Menachem Begin

Menachem Begin was an Israeli politician, founder of Likud and the sixth Prime Minister of Israel. Before the creation of the state of Israel, he was the leader of the Zionist militant group Irgun, the Revisionist breakaway from the larger Jewish paramilitary organization Haganah. He proclaimed a revolt, on 1 February 1944, against the British mandatory government, which was opposed by the Jewish Agency. As head of the Irgun, he targeted the British in Palestine. Later, the Irgun fought the Arabs during the 1947–48 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine and its chief Begin was also noted as "leader of the notorious terrorist organisation" by British government and banned from entering the United Kingdom.

Aryeh Ben-EliezerW
Aryeh Ben-Eliezer

Aryeh Ben-Eliezer was a Revisionist Zionist leader, Irgun member and Israeli politician.

Eliyahu Ben-ElissarW
Eliyahu Ben-Elissar

Eliyahu Ben-Elissar was an Israeli politician and diplomat.

Shlomo Ben-YosefW
Shlomo Ben-Yosef

Shlomo Ben-Yosef was a member of the Revisionist Zionist underground group Irgun. He is most noted for his participation in an April 21, 1938 attack on a bus carrying Arab civilians, intended as a retaliation for an earlier attack by Arabs against Jews, and emblematic as a rejection of the establishment policy of Havlagah, or restraint. For this reason, and especially for having been the first Jew executed by the British authorities during the mandate period, Ben-Yosef became a martyr for the Revisionist cause and is commemorated by the State of Israel as one of 12 Olei Hagardom.

Yitzhak BermanW
Yitzhak Berman

Yitzhak Berman was an Israeli politician who served as Minister of Energy and Infrastructure from August 1981 until September 1982. He was also Speaker of the Knesset from 1980 until 1981.

Eliyahu Bet-ZuriW
Eliyahu Bet-Zuri

Eliyahu Bet-Zuri was a member of Lehi, who was executed in Egypt for his part in the assassination of Lord Moyne, the British Minister Resident in the Middle East.

Haim CorfuW
Haim Corfu

Haim Corfu was an Israeli politician.

David DanonW
David Danon

Professor David Danon was a physician, a scientist, a leader in the study of the biology of aging, and a painter. He was the inventor of a unique treatment for the healing of pressure ulcers and other severe wounds that do not respond to conventional treatments. Before the creation of the state of Israel, he was a commander in Irgun, the Zionist paramilitary group also known as "Etzel". He was the founder and the first commander of the Israeli Air Force's first airborne military medical evacuation unit, the founder and first president of the Israeli Association for Electron Microscopy, director of the Gerontology Center at the Weizmann Institute of Science, and Chief Scientist of the Israeli Ministry of Health.

Michael DekelW
Michael Dekel

Michael Dekel was an Israeli politician who served as a member of the Knesset for Likud between 1977 and 1988.

Yehiel DresnerW
Yehiel Dresner

Yehiel Dov Dresner was an Irgun member in pre-state Mandatory Palestine and one of 12 Olei Hagardom.

Avraham DroriW
Avraham Drori

Avraham Rafael Drori was an Israeli politician who served as a member of the Knesset for Herut between 1961 and 1964.

Eliezer KashaniW
Eliezer Kashani

Eliezer Kashani was an Irgun member in Mandatory Palestine and one of the 12 Olei Hagardom.

Meir FeinsteinW
Meir Feinstein

Meir Feinstein was an Irgun member in pre-state Mandatory Palestine, during the Jewish insurgency in Palestine. Feinstein, who was sentenced to death by the British authorities, is remembered for his suicide together with Moshe Barazani, another Jewish underground fighter under sentence of death; the two killed themselves embracing each other with a live grenade lodged between them hours before their scheduled hangings. He is memorialized in Israel today as one of 12 Olei Hagardom.

Dov GrunerW
Dov Gruner

Dov Béla Gruner was a Hungarian-born Zionist activist in Mandatory Palestine and a member of the pre-state Jewish underground Irgun. On April 16, 1947, Gruner was executed by the British Mandatory authorities in Palestine on charges of "firing on policemen and setting explosive charges with the intent of killing personnel on His Majesty's service." He is honored as one of the Olei Hagardom, the twelve Jewish pre-independence fighters who were executed by British and Egyptian authorities.

Eliyahu HakimW
Eliyahu Hakim

Eliyahu Hakim was a Lehi member, known for taking part in the 1944 assassination of Lord Moyne, the British Minister Resident in the Middle East.

Jeremiah HalpernW
Jeremiah Halpern

Captain Jeremiah Halpern was a Revisionist Zionist leader in Palestine who first came to prominence when he served as aide de camp to Ze'ev Jabotinsky in the 1920s when the latter was head of the Haganah in Jerusalem.

Avshalom HavivW
Avshalom Haviv

Avshalom Haviv was a member of the Irgun underground organization in Mandatory Palestine, and one of the Olei Hagardom executed by the British authorities during the Jewish insurgency in Palestine. His hanging, along with that of two other Irgun members, triggered the Irgun's retaliatory hangings of two British sergeants.

Zvi Harry HurwitzW
Zvi Harry Hurwitz

Zvi Harry Hurwitz, also known as Harry Zvi Hurwitz, was a noted South African Jewish journalist and community leader who moved to Israel, where he served as an Israeli diplomat and adviser to prime ministers Menachem Begin and Yitzhak Shamir before founding the Menachem Begin Heritage Center.

Ze'ev JabotinskyW
Ze'ev Jabotinsky

Ze'ev Jabotinsky, MBE, was a Russian Jewish Revisionist Zionist leader, author, poet, orator, soldier and founder of the Jewish Self-Defense Organization in Odessa. With Joseph Trumpeldor, he co-founded the Jewish Legion of the British army in World War I. Later he established several Jewish organizations in Palestine, including Betar, Hatzohar, and the Irgun.

Binyamin KahaneW
Binyamin Kahane

Binyamin Kahane, 5 March 1911 – 30 October 1956, was an Israeli Air Force officer and pilot who was killed during a reconnaissance sortie. He was awarded the Medal of Courage by the Israeli Defense Forces posthumously. The aerial tactics he used are taught at military air academies worldwide.

Hanoch KalaiW
Hanoch Kalai

Hanoch Kalai was a founding member of both Irgun and Lehi, and an expert on the Hebrew language. He was Deputy Commander in Chief of Irgun under David Raziel and spent three months as Commander in Chief after Raziel was imprisoned by the British authorities, until his own arrest.

Shmuel Katz (politician)W
Shmuel Katz (politician)

Shmuel "Mooki" Katz was an Israeli writer, historian and journalist. Prior to the formation of the State of Israel, he was a Zionist activist and member of the Irgun High Command. He was a member of the first Knesset and is also known for his biography of Jewish leader Ze'ev Jabotinsky.

Salomon KlassW
Salomon Klass

Salomon Klass was a captain in the Finnish Army, a company commander and one of the three Finnish Jews who were nominated to be awarded the Iron Cross by Nazi Germany during World War II, all of whom refused to accept it. He was also a Zionist and volunteered for service in Palestine before the war.

Hillel KookW
Hillel Kook

Hillel Kook, also known as Peter Bergson, was a Revisionist Zionist activist and politician.

Edward KossoyW
Edward Kossoy

Edward Kossoy was a Polish lawyer, publicist and an activist for victims of Nazism.

Yosef KremermanW
Yosef Kremerman

Yosef Kremerman was an Israeli politician who served as a member of the Knesset for Herut, Gahal and Likud between 1964 and 1977.

Haim LandauW
Haim Landau

Haim Landau was an Israeli independence fighter, Knesset member and Minister in the government of Menachem Begin.

Eliyahu LankinW
Eliyahu Lankin

Eliyahu Lankin was a Revisionist Zionist activist, Irgun member and an Israeli politician.

Yehuda LapidotW
Yehuda Lapidot

Yehuda Lapidot is an Israeli historian, former professor of biochemistry, and veteran of the Zionist militia Irgun.

Eitan LivniW
Eitan Livni

Yeruham "Eitan" Livni was a Revisionist Zionist activist, Irgun commander and Israeli politician, father of Israeli politician Tzipi Livni.

Eliyahu MeridorW
Eliyahu Meridor

Eliyahu Meridor was an Israeli politician who served as a member of the Knesset for Herut and Gahal from 1959 until his death in 1966.

Ya'akov MeridorW
Ya'akov Meridor

Ya'akov Meridor was an Israeli politician, Irgun commander and businessman.

Elyada MeriozW
Elyada Merioz

Elyada Merioz (1932–2004) was an Israeli art collector and gallery owner.

Dov MilmanW
Dov Milman

Dov Milman was an Israeli politician and diplomat who served as a member of the Knesset for Gahal between 1969 and 1974, and as ambassador to Portugal from 1981 until 1983.

Baruch MizrahiW
Baruch Mizrahi

Baruch Mizrahi, was a Palestinian Arab and member of the Irgun during the pre-Israel Jewish insurgency in Palestine. Born an Arab Muslim, he became fascinated by Zionism and eventually converted to Judaism.

Meir NakarW
Meir Nakar

Meir Nakar was an Irgun member in pre-state Mandatory Palestine and one of 12 Olei Hagardom.

Ya'akov NehoshtanW
Ya'akov Nehoshtan

Ya'akov Nehoshtan was an Israeli politician and diplomat. He served as a member of the Knesset for Gahal between 1969 and 1974 and as ambassador to the Netherlands between 1982 and 1985.

Mordechai OlmertW
Mordechai Olmert

Mordechai Olmert was an Israeli politician who served as a member of the Knesset for Herut between 1955 and 1961. He was also the father of Ehud Olmert, who served as Prime Minister between 2006 and 2009.

Uzzi OrnanW
Uzzi Ornan

Uzzi Ornan is an Israeli linguist and social activist. Ornan is a member of the Academy of the Hebrew Language, professor of natural languages computing at the Technion and professor emeritus at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Ornan was a member of the Israeli Canaanite movement, founded by his brother Yonatan Ratosh. He is the founder of the League against religious coercion in Israel and an active supporter of the separation of church and state.

Amichai PaglinW
Amichai Paglin

Amichai Paglin, code name "Gidi" was an Israeli businessman who served as Chief Operations Officer of the Irgun during the Mandate era. He planned and personally led numerous attacks against the British during the Jewish insurgency in Palestine, commanded the battle to conquer Jaffa in the 1947–48 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine, and participated in the Israeli War of Independence. Following independence, he ran an industrial oven factory together with his father, and was later appointed Prime Minister Menachem Begin's counter-terrorism adviser.

Natan PanzW
Natan Panz

Natan Panz, was a Jewish football player from Mandatory Palestine, who played for Maccabi Tel Aviv and Beitar Tel Aviv, as well as playing one match with the Mandatory Palestine national football team. He was also an Irgun member, and was killed during the 1947–48 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine in battle with the British Army.

Mordechai PetchoW
Mordechai Petcho

Mordechai Petcho was a deputy commander of the Irgun in the Land of Israel when Ya'akov Meridor was its commander. Petcho was a scion of Azaria Piccio from Venice.

Esther Raziel-NaorW
Esther Raziel-Naor

Esther Raziel-Naor was a Revisionist Zionist, Irgun leader and Israeli politician. She was the sister of fellow Irgun leader David Raziel.

David RazielW
David Raziel

David Raziel was a leader of the Zionist underground in British Mandatory Palestine and one of the founders of the Irgun.

Meir ShamgarW
Meir Shamgar

Meir Shamgar was the chief justice of the Israeli Supreme Court from 1983 to 1995.

Yitzhak ShamirW
Yitzhak Shamir

Yitzhak Shamir was an Israeli politician and the seventh Prime Minister of Israel, serving two terms, 1983–84 and 1986–1992. Before the establishment of the state of Israel, Shamir was a leader of the Zionist militant group Lehi. After the establishment of the Israeli state he served in the Mossad between 1955 and 1965 and as a Knesset Member. He served as the 6th Speaker of the Knesset and as Foreign Affairs Minister. Shamir was the country's third-longest-serving prime minister after David Ben-Gurion and Benjamin Netanyahu.

Dov ShilanskyW
Dov Shilansky

Dov Shilansky was an Israeli politician and Speaker of the Knesset from 1988 to 1992.

Avraham SternW
Avraham Stern

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 establishment.

Shmuel TamirW
Shmuel Tamir

Shmuel M. Tamir was a prominent Israeli independence fighter, lawyer, patriot and Knesset member. After a successful career fighting the British he entered the Knesset from 1965 to 1980, rising to become Minister of Justice in the government of Menachem Begin from 1977 until 1980. A hero of the Yishuv and Eretz Yisrael Tamir was an ardent anti-Nazi leading proactive legal cases to prosecute perpetrators of the Holocaust and war criminals. A larger than life character, Tamir's maverick politics finally led him into a party of one after several coalitions with nationalist parties.

Avraham TehomiW
Avraham Tehomi

Avraham Tehomi (1903–1990), also Avraham T'homi, was a Jewish militant who served as a Haganah commander, and was one of the founders and first commander of the Irgun. He is best known for the assassination of Jacob Israël de Haan.

Mordechai TziporiW
Mordechai Tzipori

Mordechai Tzipori was an Israeli politician who served as Minister of Communications from 1981 until 1984.

Yaakov WeissW
Yaakov Weiss

Yaakov Weiss was a Hungarian Jew born in Czechoslovakia and member of the Irgun Jewish guerrilla organization in Mandatory Palestine. After saving hundreds of Jews during Holocaust, he illegally immigrated to Palestine, joined the Irgun, and fought the British during the Jewish insurgency in Palestine. He was one of three Irgun members executed for their part in the Acre Prison break, which triggered the Irgun's retaliatory hanging of two British soldiers. He is memorialized today as one of 12 Olei Hagardom.

Menachem YedidW
Menachem Yedid

Menachem Yedid was an Israeli politician who served as a member of the Knesset for Gahal and Likud between 1965 and 1977.