Iser Lubotzky

Iser Lubotzky (Lubocki) (Hebrew: איסר לובוצקי‎; 13 December 1922, in Vilnius – 27 February 2009, in Ramat Gan) was a member of Betar, the Vilna ghetto's underground and a Jewish partisan fighter.

He was both a fighting member and a commander of the Irgun, serving as a national recruiting officer and heading the Ramat Gan group.

At the outbreak of World War II, in 1939, Germany invaded Poland and Lubotzky was drafted to command an observation post on the front line of the Polish army.

Lubotzky joined the Fareynikte Partizaner Organizatsye (FPO), the secret underground that was set up in the ghetto and fought against the Germans.

Lubotzky lived in a Soviet partisan battalion in the Rūdninkai forest, taking part in raids on German convoys and on local villages.

Shortly after Lubotzky's arrival in Israel, he met him in a hiding place and together with him recruited some 2,000 new Irgun members, while acting as the head of the group in Ramat Gan.

When the ship Altalena arrived, he joined Begin in an attempt to bridge the gap between the Irgun and representatives of the government who offered to purchase all the weapons on board.

During the War of Independence, Lubotzky was drafted into the Golani Brigade and fought in the containment battles in northern Israel, during which period he served in a front-line position, managing to hit dozens of the enemy.

After the end of the War of Independence, he served for another short period in staff positions in the IDF but was forced to be released due to his past as a member of the Irgun.

[8] In the early 1970s, he was appointed attorney general of the Herut movement, and after the establishment of the Likud as its first legal adviser, serving in a voluntary capacity until 1992.

Rare indeed is this character whose story is so rich and so intertwined with the experiences of the Jewish people in general and the national revival in particular, that their personal memory becomes the collective memory.The book was written on the basis of testimonies by Iser Lubotzky, recorded by his family members, the Menachem Begin Heritage Center and Holocaust centers around the world, combined with historical research.

On the occasion of the book's launch, a seminar was held in June 2017 at the Begin Center in Jerusalem with the participation of Herzl Makov, Dov Eichenwald, Maj. Gen.

Iser Lubotzky in Israel