Meir Shamgar
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Meir Shamgar was the president of the Israeli Supreme Court from 1983 to 1995.
Meir Shamgar 1987 Dan Hadani Archive III
Shamgar at the age of 18
Shamgar in detention in Eritrea, 1946
From 1944 to 1948, Irgun and Lehi men being held without trial at the Latroun camp were deported by the British Mandate of Palestine authorities to internment camps in Africa, located in Sembel, Carth
Meir Shamgar
…Gymnasium in Tel Aviv. He joined the Palmach and served in Company D. He then joined the Irgun. He was arrested in 1944 for anti-British activities, and interned in Africa at a detention camp in Eritrea. While in detention in Eritrea he studied law by a correspondence course with the University of London. Fellow inmates…
Irgun detainees in the Gilgil internment camp, Kenya (from left to right: Aryeh Mehullal, Reuven (Robert) Rubinstein, Zvi Hadassi, Dov HaLevi Milman, Shmuel Tamir (Katznelson), Meir Shamgar (Sternberg)).
Irgun posters. Left: "Remember: Today it's them, tomorrow it's you who shall be deported". Right: "Banishment of Jews from their homeland - unpredicated disgrace, unforgivable crime".
The Gilgil camp.