List of Irgun members explained

This is a list of notable members of the Irgun, either having been listed by the Irgun's website[1] or by reputable independent sources.

Former Irgun members[2] have held positions of highest influence in the Israeli political and security establishments since independence, and the lasting effect of the ideology espoused by groups such as the Irgun and the Lehi continues to be a source of active research and debate among responsible historians and political observers to this day.

Irgun chief commanders

The Gallows

The Irgun's Olei Hagardom (Jews who were hanged or committed suicide while awaiting execution during the British occupation) are as follows.

Senior commanders

Other members

The Irgun's exact membership roster is not known, and like many paramilitary and clandestine organizations, was somewhat nebulous; and in any case certain highly notable early Irgun members (such as Yitzhak Shamir) simply are not listed on the Irgun website. The following persons have been attributed by reputable sources as having significant roles, either as bona fide IZL members, assets or close affiliates.

Contract affiliates

Persons of notable affiliation to the Irgun, but who were probably not members in any formal sense.

ZZW / IZL issues

The whole issue of the Żydowski Związek Wojskowy (known in Hebrew as Irgun Zvai Leumi and in English as the National Military Organization), the Revisionist Zionist resistance organization in Warsaw under the time of the German occupation, is rather complicated due to the ZZW's being largely ignored by the "mainstream" Irgun in Israel, while all the same there are ZZW members such as Dawid Wdowinski who pointedly describe theirs as a bonafide IZL faction.[15] [16]

Notes and References

  1. http://www.etzel.org.il/english/people/frame.htm Irgun commanders
  2. Numerical estimates of total Irgun membership have ranged from 4,000 to 10,000. (Compare with outer estimates of 1,000 for the Stern faction, and 60,000 for the Haganah.)
  3. Web site: Devora Publishing – Golan, Zev (author) . 2007-02-03 . https://web.archive.org/web/20070927124150/http://www.devorapublishing.com/Wpages/Authors/Golan.htm . 2007-09-27 . dead .
  4. News: Israeli 'ruler-in-waiting' plans to starve Hamas . The Independent . London . Leonard . Doyle . March 2, 2006 . May 8, 2010 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20080516080131/http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article348712.ece . May 16, 2008 .
  5. https://groups.jewishgen.org/g/main/message/286640 Eduard Samuel Tamler
  6. http://www.nrg.co.il/online/54/ART2/189/239.html
  7. Elizabeth Bumiller, The Brothers Emanuel, New York Times, June 15.
  8. Matthew Kalman, Obama chief of staff Rahm Emanuel is no pal of ours, Israel's foes say, New York Daily News, November 6, 2008.
  9. http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=2&article_id=97465 Obama's choice for chief of staff puts 'Israel's man in White
  10. Trevor Royle, Diplomatic Editor, Bipartisanship balancing act is just one pre-Oval Office issue for Obama, Sunday Herald, November 16, 2008.
  11. News: British anger at terror celebration. Ned Parker and Stephen Farrell. The Times. July 20, 2006. London.
  12. Yehuda Lapidot, "The Altalena Affair"
  13. Web site: Jewish Post of New York Online – News – the Last Mohican . 2007-02-05 . 2004-04-26 . https://web.archive.org/web/20040426030734/http://www.jewishpost.com/jp0803/jpn0803n.htm . dead .
  14. Book: Political Assassinations by Jews: A Rhetorical Device for Justice. 9780791496374. Ben-Yehuda. Nachman. 2012. State University of New York Press .
  15. Book: David Wdowiński . And we are not saved . 1963 . 222 . Philosophical Library . New York . 0802224865 . Note: Chariton and Lazar were never co-authors of Wdowiński's memoir. Wdowiński is considered the "single author."
  16. Web site: Deconstructing Memory and History: The Jewish Military Union (ZZW) and the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. Dariusz Libionka and Laurence Weinbaum. Jewish Political Studies Review 18:1-2 (Spring 2006) .