Eitan Livni

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Date of birth = 1919
Place of birth = Grodno, Poland
Year of Aliyah = 1925
Date of death = 27 December, 1991
Place of death =
Knesset(s) = 8th, 9th, 10th
Party = Likud
Former parties =
Gov't roles =

Yeruham "Eitan" Livni ( _he. ירוחם "איתן" לבני, 1919 – 27 December, 1991) was a Revisionist Zionist activist, Irgun commander and Israeli politician.

Biography

Livni was born in Grodno, Poland (today Hrodna, Belarus) in 1919. His family moved to the British Mandate of Palestine in 1925 and settled in Tel Aviv. He went to High School and Trade School in Tel Aviv, and in 1938 he joined the Betar Company at Zikhron Ya'aqov, where he was assigned to agricultural work and guard duty. Soon after, he joined the Irgun, and a year later, he was summoned to a commanders course at Tel Tzur (near Binyamina).Cite web
last = Lapidot
first = Yehuda
title = Eitan Livni
work = Jewish Virtual Library
accessdate = 2008-01-13
url = http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/Livni.html]

When the Irgun proclaimed its "revolt" against the British in February 1944, he was put in charge of the Irgun activities, and was later appointed to the General Headquarters as chief operations officer. He was arrested on April 4, 1946, for his participation in the "Night of the Trains". He was sentenced, together with his comrades, to 15 years imprisonment, but was freed two years later in the Acre Prison break. He was sent clandestinely to Europe to organize action against British targets there, and on May 15, 1948, he returned home to take part in the 1948 Arab-Israeli War.

After Israel was established in 1948, He and Sara Rosenberg, a fellow Irgun activist, became the first couple to marry in the new Jewish state.Cite news
last = Hai
first = Yigal
title = Sara Livni, mother of FM Tzipi Livni laid to rest in Tel Aviv
work = Haaretz
accessdate = 2008-02-07
date = 2007-10-10
url = http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/911162.html] He was chairman of the Wood Products Department of the Industrialists Association from 1949 to 1959, and owner of the “Ariah” Starch Factory until 1965. He was a member of the Directorate and Secretariat of the Herut Movement in 1960 and Head of its Organization Department in 1965. He was also the chairman of the Union of Irgun Soldiers between 1962 and 1980 and chairman of Acre and Jerusalem Prisoners Association in 1963.

In 1968 he became a member of Directorate of Gahal and later of Likud, and was the chairman of Directorate of Likud from 1970 to 1971. He was elected to the Knesset in 1973, 1977 and 1981. He was a member of the Economic Affairs, Foreign Affairs and Defense and State Control Committees.

He died in 1991. At his specific request, the Irgun emblem was engraved on his headstone.Cite news
last = Doyle
first = Leonard
title = Israeli 'ruler-in-waiting' plans to starve Hamas
work = The Independent
accessdate = 2008-02-08
date = 2006-03-02
url = http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/israeli-rulerinwaiting-plans-to-starve-hamas-468293.html] After his death, his daughter, Tzipi, entered the Israeli political scene, and has since become a prominent minister for Likud and later for Kadima.Cite news
last = Westcott
first = Kathryn
title = Tzipi Livni: Israel's 'Mrs Clean'
work = BBC
accessdate = 2008-02-07
date = 2007-05-02
url = http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6615687.stm]

Bibliography

* Personal Story of Operations Officer of Etzel (1983) he icon

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