| Lehi formally disbanded on May 29, 1948 | As a result, US President was reluctant to approve loan guarantees to help absorb immigrants from the former Soviet Union |
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| המעשה הזה גרם לקרע בין שמיר ובעיקר בין נתניהו לבין שר החוץ דוד לוי | במרס 1970 הצטרף ל הכוח המרכזי בהקמת מפלגת כדי לפעול למען יהדות ברית המועצות, אך עיקר פעילותו היה בתחום ניהולה הארגוני של התנועה |
A few months after Stern was killed by the British in 1942, Shamir and hid under a stack of mattresses in a warehouse of the detention camp at , and at night escaped through the barbed wire fences of the camp.
12| Shamir plotted the 1944 assassination of , British Minister for Middle East Affairs, and personally selected and to carry it out | However, after United States and Netherlands deployed Patriot antimissile batteries to protect Israel, and US and British special forces began hunting for Scuds, Shamir responded to American calls for restraint, recalled the jets, and agreed not to retaliate |
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| Shamir claimed his father was killed just outside his birthplace in Ruzhany by villagers who had been his childhood friends, after he had escaped from a German train transporting Jews to the death camps, though this was never confirmed | This decision proved to be a brave and wise act of leadership |
Foreign Minister added that Shamir "contributed greatly to the foundation of the state, which he served his entire life with loyalty and unwavering dedication.
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