Man of the Stern Gang

Mira Bar-Hillel recalls the family friend who was once one of the controllers of the Zionist organisation responsible for the assassination of Britain’s minister resident in the Middle East.

Last post: the funeral procession of Lord Moyne, Cairo, November 8th, 1944. Hulton Archive / Getty ImagesIn the early afternoon of November 6th, 1944 two men waited in ambush near his Cairo headquarters for Lord Moyne, Winston Churchill’s close friend and minister resident in the Middle East.

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