1. Yaakov Heruti was an Israeli lawyer, far-right activist and Zionist militant.
15 Facts About Yaakov Heruti
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Yaakov Heruti was a member of the pre-state militant group Lehi, during which he built bombs for the organization and in particular, assembled the letter bomb which was sent to Roy Farran while stationed in Britain as an undercover agent.
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Yaakov Heruti later became the leader of the group Kingdom of Israel, which bombed the Soviet embassy in Tel Aviv and carried out other acts of terrorism in the 1950s, for which he served a two-year prison term.
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Yaakov Heruti later became involved in politics and settlement activity, participating in the founding of two right-wing political parties and assisting settlers in purchasing land.
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Yaakov Heruti was part of Lehi's technical department and specialized in making bombs, which were first employed against British personnel during the Jewish insurgency in Mandatory Palestine.
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Yaakov Heruti devised a new form of explosive for use by Lehi and opened a paint factory which produced explosives along with regular paint.
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Yaakov Heruti enrolled at London University law school as a cover and recruited a dozen accomplices from the ranks of right-wing Zionist groups like Betar and the Hebrew Legion.
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Lehi's leadership instructed Yaakov Heruti to kill British Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin, who'd broken the Labour Party's promise to rescind the White Paper and establish a Jewish state immediately after the war, General Evelyn Barker, the former general officer commanding of the Palestine Command, and Roy Farran, a former PPF policeman who had been tried but acquitted for his role in the alleged murder of a teenage Lehi member.
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Yaakov Heruti left the UK in May 1948, and took a ship from France to Israel.
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Yaakov Heruti fought in the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, in the Jerusalem area.
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Yaakov Heruti was acquitted of this charge, but was convicted of distributing leaflets condemning the judge for acquitting Kastzner.
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In January 1958, Yaakov Heruti was sentenced to a year and a half in prison.
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Yaakov Heruti was one of the founders of the right-wing political parties Tehiya and Tsomet.
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Yaakov Heruti coined the name of Rehavam Ze'evi's party Moledet.
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Yaakov Heruti has one son from his first wife and six children from his second wife.