The Elliot Resnick Show

From the Nile to the Euphrates – Lechi's Zionist Vision

Episode 38

Lechi was an underground movement committed to expelling the British from the Promised Land in the 1940s.  But it was also much more than that.  It wanted a Jewish state from the Nile to the Euphrates and a Beis HaMikdash at its center.  And it was unyielding.  When Ben-Gurion shot at the Altalena, for example, Menachem Begin backed down; Lechi wanted to fight back.  In this interview, Zev Golan,  translator of the memoirs of one of Lechi's leaders, discusses this fascinating group.