Stern had been a member of the Irgun ( Irgun Tsvai Leumi – "National Military Organization") high command. Lehi was created in August 1940 by Avraham Stern. Former Lehi leader Yitzhak Shamir became Prime Minister of Israel in 1983. In 1980, Israel instituted a military decoration, an "award for activity in the struggle for the establishment of Israel", the Lehi ribbon. Just before the first Israeli elections in January 1949, a general amnesty to Lehi members was granted by the government. After the assassination, the new Israeli government declared Lehi a terrorist organization, arresting some 200 members and convicting some of the leaders. On, the government of Israel, having inducted its activist members into the Israel Defense Forces, formally disbanded Lehi, though some of its members carried out one more terrorist act, the assassination of Folke Bernadotte some months later, an act condemned by Bernadotte's replacement as mediator, Ralph Bunche. Lehi assassinated Lord Moyne, British Minister Resident in the Middle East, and made many other attacks on the British in Palestine. Lehi and the Irgun were jointly responsible for the massacre in Deir Yassin. It said that its National Bolshevism involved an amalgamation of left-wing and right-wing political elements – Stern said Lehi incorporated elements of both the left and the right – however this change was unpopular and Lehi began to lose support as a result. In 1944, Lehi officially declared its support for National Bolshevism. After Stern's death in 1942, the new leadership of Lehi began to move it towards support for Joseph Stalin's Soviet Union. During World War II, it declared that it would establish a Jewish state based upon "nationalist and totalitarian principles". Believing that Nazi Germany was a lesser enemy of the Jews than Britain, Lehi twice attempted to form an alliance with the Nazis. Lehi initially sought an alliance with Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany, offering to fight alongside them against the British in return for the transfer of all Jews from Nazi-occupied Europe to Palestine. Lehi split from the Irgun militant group in 1940 in order to continue fighting the British during World War II. The group referred to its members as terrorists and admitted to having used terrorist attacks. It was initially called the National Military Organization in Israel, upon being founded in August 1940, but was renamed Lehi one month later. Its avowed aim was to evict the British authorities from Palestine by resort to force, allowing unrestricted immigration of Jews and the formation of a Jewish state, a "new totalitarian Hebrew republic". Lehi ( Hebrew pronunciation: Hebrew: לח"י – לוחמי חרות ישראל Lohamei Herut Israel – Lehi, "Fighters for the Freedom of Israel – Lehi"), often known pejoratively as the Stern Gang, was a Zionist paramilitary organization founded by Avraham ("Yair") Stern in Mandatory Palestine. Īvraham Stern, Yitzhak Shamir, Nathan Yellin-Mor The acronym "Lehi" is written below the hand. The hand represents the Lehi salute, only two raised fingers in the right hand to represent the "If I forget thee / O Jerusalem.may my right hand forget its skill."(Ps.
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