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Director Marisa Fox holding a photo of her mother, Tamar Fromer-Fox (aka Hela Hocherman) in a scene from 'My Underground Mother.' (c) Marisa Fox, 2025. (Andrew Abrahams)
August 2, 2025, 1:45 pm
Journalist thought her Israeli freedom-fighter mother hid something big. She was right
In ‘My Underground Mother,’ premiering at the SF Jewish Film Festival, Marisa Fox grapples with her Polish-born mother’s motives for keeping secrets and hiding her true identity
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Portrait of Geula Cohen, in her home in Jerusalem. May 24, 2011.( Nati Shohat/FLASH90)
December 19, 2019, 1:12 am
Geula Cohen, pre-state underground fighter, veteran right-wing MK, dies at 93
President Rivlin leads praise for the Etzel and Stern gang member turned politician who was vocal opponent of Israeli withdrawals from lands captured in Six Day War
By ToI Staff
Tour guide Moshe Ben Yehuda speaks at the Lehi Museum in Tel Aviv. (Shmuel Bar-Am)
April 1, 2017, 8:08 am
In Tel Aviv, a glimpse into the turbulent years when the British ruled
Lehi leader Avraham Stern was gunned down 75 years ago in an unassuming apartment; it now houses a museum dedicated to the underground group
By Aviva and Shmuel Bar-Am
The southern wing of the King David Hotel in Jerusalem following the 1946 terrorist bombing (Screenshot of newsreel footage from YouTube)
September 29, 2016, 2:53 am
UK opens secret files on 1940s ‘Jewish terrorists’ in Palestine and beyond
Newly declassified documents show how British agents tried to contain militant activities, feared attacks on British soil
By Gregory Katz
Michael Oren
May 17, 2016, 7:56 pm
Michael Oren
A politicized army is a threat to Israel
Any intervention of IDF commanders in domestic politics is the first step toward the end of democratic rule
Zionist leaders arrested in Operation Agatha, a series of British raids, including one on the Jewish Agency in which incriminating documentation was found. From left to right: David Remez, Moshe Sharett, Yitzhak Gruenbaum, Dov Yosef, Shenkarsky, David Hacohen, Isser Harel. (public domain)
April 25, 2015, 5:16 am
After studying pre-state Jewish terrorists, author asks: Does terrorism work?
Bruce Hoffman says the struggle for Israel’s independence forms a blueprint for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict today
By JP O’ Malley
Yitzhak Shamir, pictured in 1992. (photo credit: Flash90)
July 5, 2012, 10:43 am
Yitzhak Shamir: Why we killed Lord Moyne
Soon after he had stepped down as leader of the Likud in 1993, Yitzhak Shamir accepted a young American student’s request to interview him for her doctoral dissertation. In this excerpt, Joanna Saidel questions him on the reasons for, and repercussions of, the Lehi’s shattering assassination of Britain’s minister of state in the Middle East
By Joanna Saidel
Yitzhak Shamir (photo credit: Flash90)
June 30, 2012, 8:33 pm
Yitzhak Shamir, Israel’s modest, hardline ex-PM, dies at 96
Pre-’48 underground leader, Mossad agent, and seventh prime minister passes away after long illness; Netanyahu mourns a ‘founder of the state’
By ToI Staff
Avraham Ya'ir Stern (photo credit: Wikimedia Commons)
February 20, 2012, 4:40 pm
The rehabilitation of an underground revolutionary
Young people turned out in droves this year to mark the 70th anniversary of Avraham ‘Ya’ir’ Stern’s death
By Mitch Ginsburg
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