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Pol Photo Jewish card vintage shana tova new year israel 1950 Paul Kolek Haganah

Pol Photo Jewish card vintage shana tova new year israel 1950 Paul Kolek Haganah

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jewish vintage photo card shana tova new year israel 1950 Paul Kolek Haganah judaica
paul kolek, brother of teddy kolek, was a Hagana commander
In January 1950, Herut published the affair and accused Paul Kollek (Teddy Kollek's brother) of being responsible for the death of Yedidya Segal (etzel), due to Kollek's role as Haganah commander in Haifa. Kollek sued the newspaper for slander. The trial was conducted with a lack of public interest, when "Herut" was represented by Yitzhak Ben Yemini, the Irgun's permanent attorney, who was replaced by the young lawyer Shmuel Tamir.  Tamir turned the courtroom into an arena of wrestling with the establishment, He brought to the witness stand senior members of the Haganah who confessed to interrogations by the Haganah against the Etzel members (Tamir later used similar tactics in the Kasztner trial). Among the witnesses in the trial were the mother of Yedidia Segal , Isser Be'eri and Yosef Almogi . The trial ended in a compromise outside the court

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