Folke Bernadotte
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Folke Bernadotte, Count of Wisborg was a Swedish nobleman and diplomat. In World War II, he negotiated the release of about 450 Danish Jews and 30,550 non-Jewish prisoners of many nations from the Naz
Bernadotte in the mid 1940s
Count Folke Bernadotte (left) talking to Australian prisoners of war in Sweden during a prisoner exchange, 1943
A White Bus passes through Odense, Denmark, 17 April 1945.
Folke Bernadotte in 1948
Yitzhak Shamir
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Yitzhak Shamir was an Israeli politician who served as the seventh prime minister of Israel, serving two terms. Before the establishment of the State of Israel, Shamir was a leader of the Zionist mili
Folke Bernadotte
…decided to reject Bernadotte's plan. The killing was approved by the three-man 'center' of Lehi: Yitzhak Yezernitsky (the future Prime Minister of Israel Yitzhak Shamir), Nathan Friedmann (also called Natan Yellin-Mor) and Yisrael Eldad (also known as Scheib). A fourth leader, Emmanuel Strassberg (Hanegbi) was also…
Shamir in 1992
Shamir in 1938
Wanted poster of the Palestine Police Force for Irgun members, showing Menachem Begin (top row, far left) and Yitzhak Shamir (bottom row, far right)
Wanted poster of the Palestine Police Force offering rewards for the capture of Lehi members: Yaakov Levstein (Eliav), left, Yitzhak Yezernitzky (Shamir), center, and Natan Friedman-Yelin (Yellin-Mor), right