What Happened to the Lehi After Israeli Independence?
The Lehi, as I mentioned in the first essay “The History of the Lehi”, joined the Israeli Defense Forces in 1948. They stopped operating after that by their own, but they continued to function in Jerusalem. For example, the assassination of Count Folke Bernadotte was on September 17th 1948 in Jerusalem, while the group was already in the Israeli Defense Forces. But after the assassination the group was forcefully broken up for good. After Israel was declared, the Lehi tried to get into politics. Some left-wings members of the Lehi founded a political party called “The Fighters list” with Yellin-Mor as its head. The party fought the elections in January 1949 and won one seat. However, the party disbanded after failing to win a seat in the 1951 elections. The members of the Lehi also joined the army of Israel after the declaration. Although the Lehi broke up, some of her leaders and members continued to act for the public on their own. For example, Yitzhak Shamir. Shamir was one of the t
