- Fighters' List
The Fighters' List (Hebrew: רשימת הלוחמים, "Reshimat HaLokhmim") was a political party in
Israel .History
The Fighters' List grew out of Lehi, a paramilitary organisation that had operated in
Palestine during the Mandate era. Lehi was a controversial group, described by the British, theYishuv and the UN as a terrorist organisation. It had been involved in a series of notorious actions, including the assassination ofLord Moyne and theDeir Yassin massacre . The group was disbanded and integrated into the IDF in May 1948. However, they continued to act inJerusalem until being forcefully broken up after the assassination of Count Folke Bernadotte, a UN mediator, on 17 September, 1948.After the final dissolution of Lehi,
left-wing former members founded the Fighters' List to represent their cause in the 1949 elections. The list was headed byNatan Yellin-Mor , the former leader of Lehi, who at the time was in jail serving an eight-year sentence for his role in the assassination of Count Bernadotte. The party won only 1.2% of the vote and one seat in the first Knesset. Yellin-Mor was released from prison to take up his seat. However, he lost his place in theKnesset in the 1951 elections, when the party failed to win a seat.External links
* [http://www.knesset.gov.il/faction/eng/FactionPage_eng.asp?PG=94 Party history at the official Knesset website (in English)]
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