Lehi (Hebrew pronunciation: [ˈleχi]; Hebrew: לחי – לוחמי חרות ישראל Lohamei Herut Israel – Lehi Fighters for the Freedom of Israel – Lehi) commonly referred to in English as the Stern Gang was a militant Zionist group founded by Avraham (Yair) Stern in the British Mandate of Palestine. Its avowed aim was forcibly evicting the British authorities from Palestine allowing unrestricted immigration of Jews and the formation of a Jewish state.
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country
Mandatory Palestine
extinction year
1948-01-01T00:00:00+02:00
formation year
1940-01-01T00:00:00+02:00
ideology
Fascism, Avraham Stern, National Bolshevism, Anti-imperialism, Revisionist Zionism
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