13 Facts About Eliyahu Giladi

Eliyahu Giladi was a Lehi fighter from Transylvania.

Eliyahu Giladi was born Eliyahu Albert Grun, in the village of Bikafalva in Transylvania, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, into a family of ultra-Orthodox Jews.

Eliyahu Giladi was the youngest of three sons of Moshe Grun and his wife, Rachel.

Eliyahu Giladi worked as a saddle apprentice and joined the Betar youth movement.

In Palestine, he adopted the Hebrew surname Eliyahu Giladi and joined Irgun, the underground paramilitary organization of the revisionist Zionists, under the leadership of David Raziel.

Eliyahu Giladi became the head of the section of Irgun in Ness Ziona.

Together with the other members, led by Yehoshua Cohen, Shamir and Eliyahu Giladi, they went on to reorganize the network.

Eliyahu Giladi threatened his comrades, including Shamir, with a revolver, launched hasty and dangerous actions against the British Army personnel among the Jewish civilian population, allegedly proposing that members of the movement work as prostitutes.

Arie Perliger and Leonard Weinberg state that Eliyahu Giladi was assassinated because he wished to return to the Irgun.

Shamir was convinced that Eliyahu Giladi was endangering the existence of the organization and decided that there was no choice but to kill him.

Eliyahu Giladi was commissioned to send a shipment of weapons by boats from the Zevulun naval school in northern Tel Aviv.

Eliyahu Giladi's name is immortalized in the Garden of the Missing in Action at Mount Herzl.

Eliyahu Giladi submitted the query, following a request from Giladi's family.