Word: haganah
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...like many Zionists, he fought in the British army against the Axis, rose to be a major. When the war with the Arabs broke out, Tobiansky, with the full approval of Haganah, kept his civilian job in the British electric light company in Jerusalem. He also commanded a secret Haganah airbase outside the city. He was a quiet man with a slight paunch, who liked to sit in Jerusalem's Cafe Vienna with his wife and some friends, sipping beer...
About a month after Meyer Tobiansky's disappearance, the Jewish government issued a curt announcement: Tobiansky had been convicted of treason by a Haganah court-martial and shot...
...Haganah soldiers walked up to Tobiansky in a Tel Aviv grocery store and asked him to come along for an important conference. They drove him to a schoolhouse in an abandoned Arab village. There, three Haganah officers charged him with furnishing his British superiors in the electric company with a list of important users of current in Jerusalem; that list, passed on to the Arabs, supposedly guided the Arab Legion's artillery fire to the city's most important targets...
...drawn up the list, which included hospitals, the newspaper Palestine Post, military establishments with radio installations. But Tobiansky pleaded that the list had merely been intended to show which electric current users were to have priority in case the city's power had to be curtailed. His Haganah superiors approved of the list...
...less than four hours the court-martial reached its decision. Tobiansky was stood against a sunbaked mud wall of an old Arab building. He refused a blindfold as he stood at attention facing half a dozen Haganah riflemen. His last words were: "Take care...