Brit HaBirionim was a clandestine, self-declared fascist faction of the Revisionist Zionism movement in Mandatory Palestine, active between 1930 and 1933. It was founded by Abba Ahimeir, Uri Zvi Green
Abba Ahimeir, Uri Zvi Greenberg, and Yehoshua Yeivin.
Abba Ahimeir (handcuffed) being brought to court in Jerusalem.
Sixty-seven or sixty-nine Jews were massacred on 24 August 1929 in Hebron, Mandatory Palestine. The event also left scores seriously wounded or maimed. Jewish homes were pillaged and synagogues were r
From top-left, clockwise: Young boy crying from wounds; The Holy Ark of the Sephardi Synagogue of Abraham is ransacked; A survivor reflecting in the aftermath of the massacre; Kolstein family recover from their injuries. Bottom: Memorials to murdered rabbinical students in the old Jewish cemetery.
Elhanan Zelig Roch, a student of the Hebron Yeshiva, lost a hand in the attack
Jewish child victim of Arab riots
Raymond Cafferata about 1926