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Yitzhak Shamir (Hebrew: יצחק שמיר, listen ⓘ; born Yitzhak Yezernitsky; October 22, 1915 – June 30, 2012) was an Israeli politician and the seventh prime minister of Israel, serving two terms (1983–1984, 1986–1992). [1]
Yitzhak Shamir, one of the three leaders of Lehi after Avraham Stern's assassination, argued for the legitimacy of Lehi's actions: There are those who say that to kill Martin [c] is terrorism, but to attack an army camp is guerrilla warfare and to bomb civilians is professional warfare. But I think it is the same from the moral point of view.
Major Farran's Hat: Murder, Scandal and Britain's War Against Jewish Terrorism 1945–1948. London: Vintage Books. ISBN 9780434018444. Marton, K. (2011). A Death in Jerusalem: The Assassination by Jewish Extremists of the First Arab/Israeli. Knopf Doubleday. ISBN 9780307800503. Morris, B. (2004). The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem ...
A British police sergeant, T.G. Martin, who had identified and arrested Lehi leader and future Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir, was assassinated near his Haifa home. [124] September 10 – British forces imposed a curfew and searched for militants in Tel Aviv and Ramat Gan, arresting 101 people and wounding four.
[37] Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir stated that the Israeli government was "united in its resolute decision and its desire to take all necessary measures to bring an end to this phenomenon" and pledged to "upgrade ways of striking at terrorists and preventing repeated attacks, to guarantee the security of the Jewish population in particular and ...
Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir was quoted as saying "The terrorists try to attack us daily. These are the same individuals who are inciting disturbances in the territories", and then-Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin described the incident as part of a major PLO effort to show that terrorism remains the principal means by which its political goals ...
That decision would play a large part in Yitzhak Rabin’s election victory over Yitzhak Shamir in 1992. Rabin would receive the loan guarantees within two months of his election.
Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir pledged in a brief statement that "the assailants and those who sent them will not go unpunished." [1] After the attack, Israel sent warplanes over the Syrian-occupied mountains west of Lebanon's Bekaa Valley, where Israeli gunners had bombarded suspected Palestinian guerrilla 'command posts' the day before ...