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Stavsky, Abraham

Stavsky, Abraham


Son of Ita and Aharon-Zvi was born on January 5, 1906 in the city of Brisk, Lithuania, where he received a traditional and Zionist education at his parents’ home, and in 1923, after graduating from high school, tried to immigrate to Eretz Israel as an illegal immigrant, The Romanian authorities handed him over to the Polish authorities who brought him back to his home, and after a short time he was drafted into the Polish army. In 1933, he returned to Eretz Israel, again as an immigrant, but in Marseilles he received an immigration permit at the Jewish Agency’s immigration office and thus arrived in Israel legally. In Israel, he immediately began his activities in Betar and in Brit Habiryonim, led by Ava Achimeir. On June 18, 1933, two days after the murder of Chaim Arlosoroff, head of the Political Department of the Jewish Agency, on the shores of Tel Aviv, Abraham was arrested by the British police as one of the suspects in the murder and was tried as the No. 1 defendant. Following the verdict in which he was convicted And condemned to death, disagreements broke out in the Yishuv and the Diaspora, and a public movement of writers and intellectuals arose. Rabbis and other public figures who went out to prove the innocence of the condemned man. About a month and a half later, the defendant was acquitted in the appeal filed with the appeals court and he was released for “lack of evidence”. At the request of Ze’ev Jabotinsky, who worked tirelessly to acquit the members of his movement for the murder, Avraham returned to Poland and devoted himself to Betar and the Betar, and mainly helped distribute the newspapers: the national movement, Unzer Velt (our world) (“Ma’aseh”), and afterwards in the Betar and HaTzair illegal immigration organization, which later became the most prominent head of this enterprise and handled all the details: obtaining exit permits and transit permits, issuing travel tickets, When the Second World War broke out, he managed to leave Poland and set out for Palestine, but here the British authorities prevented him from landing on the shores of Palestine. Where he worked in the field of the Etzel delegation from Eretz Israel. After the war, he returned to Europe, visited She’erit Hapleitah in the camps in Germany and Austria, returned to the illegal immigration movement and was one of the main activists in the voyage of the illegal immigrant ship son of-Hecht, which arrived on the shores of the country on March 9, 1947. After the declaration of the establishment of the State of Israel, he devoted himself to the organization of the Altalena, an organization that transported Etzel fighters, volunteers, and many weapons to the Land of Israel on June 23, 1948. He died on board the ship as a fire from the ” He was brought to rest at the military cemetery in Nachalat Yitzhak, where he left a wife, two brothers and two sisters, and even after his death many in the socialist parties were unaware of the innocence of Avraham Stavsky and therefore a state commission of inquiry was set up The State Commission of Inquiry, headed by former Supreme Court Justice David Bechor, unanimously determined in a report submitted to the Prime Minister (on the 15th of Sivan 5748) – June 4, 1985) that “Abraham Stavski and Zvi Rosenblatt were not murderers Arlosoroff late and they had no hand in the murder.”

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