Lot of Shlomo ben Yosef:

Lot of Shlomo ben Yosef:

1. Parshat Shlomo Ben Yosef by Yitzhak Ziv-Av. 1938. 24 cm. Cover is detached and torn. Decent condition.

2. Official memorial envelope, published by Lehi and Etzel, in memory of the 14 Martyrs. Stamps in memory of Moshe Barazani and Meir Feinstein's deaths, 20 years prior. 

[Meir Feinstein (1927-1947) and Moshe Barazani were Irgun members in pre-state Mandatory Palestine, during the Jewish insurgency in Palestine. They were sentenced to dearg by the British authorities and the two killed themselves embracing each other with a live grenade lodged between them hours before their scheduled hangings].

3. Letter and a MINT sheet of stamps, in memory of the martyrs (Shlomo Ben-Yosef is in the center of the top row)

4. Shlomo Ben-Yosef, His Life, His Adventures and His Death by N. Ben Ephraim. Moses Printing, Tel Aviv. Mandate era.

5. Postcard with the image of Shlomo Ben-Yosef

Shlomo Ben-Yosef (1913 -1938) was a member of the Revisionist Zionist underground group Irgun. He is most noted for his participation in an April 21, 1938 attack on a bus carrying Arab civilians, intended as a retaliation for an earlier attack by Arabs against Jews, and emblematic as a rejection of the establishment policy of Havlagah, or restraint. For this reason, and especially for having been the first Jew executed by the British authorities during the mandate period, Ben-Yosef is revered in the highest terms by right-wing Zionist groups such as Betar, Irgun, Jewish Defense League and the Kach movement (an organisation outlawed in Israel), and is memorialized by those groups as one of 12 Olei Hagardom.

Before his death, Ben Yosef wrote: "I am going to die, and I am not at all sorry, because I am going to die for our country!" 

While being escorted to the gallows, he sang the Betar anthem. Seconds before he was hanged, he called out "long live the Jewish state! Long live Jabotinsky!"