Israel's first political assassination



Israel's first political assassination was not the murder of Yitzchak Rabin in 1995, nor was it the murder of British Count Bernadot by the Irgun in the 1940's. Israel's first political assassination was 89 years ago yesterday - June 30, 1924 - and it was carried out by the Hagana, the force that eventually became the IDF. The victim was a Dutch poet, journalist and legal scholar named Jacob