Avraham Stern, Avraham Stern

Moshe Svorai was caught by British detectives who raided another apartment, where two Lehi members were shot to death and Svorai and one other wounded and hospitalized. Sterns Lehi contact, Hisia Shapiro, thought she might have been followed one morning and stopped bringing messages. On 12 February 1942 she came with one last message, from the Haganah, offering to house Stern for the duration of the war if he would give up his fight against the British. Stern gave Shapiro a letter in reply declining the safe haven and suggesting cooperation between Lehi and the Haganah in fighting the British. A couple of hours later British detectives arrived to search the apartment and discovered Stern hiding there. He was told to sit on the couch. One detective held a gun to his face, another stood next to the couch and pointed a gun to his head. Stern was handcuffed and told to stand, then shot from behind. Zev Golan, Free Jerusalem , pp. 231-234 Avraham Stern's memorial day is attended every year by Israeli political and government officials. In 1978, a postage stamp was issued in his honor. His son, Yair, born a few months after Stern's murder, is a veteran broadcast journalist and TV news anchor who once headed Israel Television.

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