Ben-Amram (Frankel), Zvi

Zvi Son of-Amram, (Frankel) son of Gisela and Amram, was born in 1916 in Frankfurt, Germany and immigrated to Eretz Israel with his mother in 1934. Upon his arrival, he enlisted and soon found his way to the ranks of the Irgun underground. In 1937 Zvi assassinated an Arab in the village of Sumail and killed him. He managed to escape but the British police discovered his gun at his mother’s house, and she was arrested. The British spread rumors that they were torturing the mother. The rumors reached Zvi and he apparently decided to turn himself in to save his mother. When his intention was known to his comrades, they feared that he would not withstand torture and would tell the British what he knew about the Irgun underground, so an Irgun commander, without the consent of his Irgun commander, ordered him to be executed on September 6, 1937. Upon discovering the body, Zvi was first buried as a non-Jew. Only after checking and identifying the clock on which the true identity was revealed. Zvi was brought to rest in the Nahalat Yitzhak cemetery on 10 September 1937. Forty-six years after his death, honor was returned to Tzvi and his name was included among the Irgun’s fallen.