Mira Bar-Hillel

Last post: the funeral procession of Lord Moyne, Cairo, November 8th, 1944. Hulton Archive / Getty Images

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.

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Jewish Brigade: Soldiers of Zion

Having fled Hitler’s Berlin, Oscar Westreich gained a new identity in Palestine. He eventually joined the British army, whose training of Jewish soldiers proved crucial to the formation of Israel, as his daughter, Mira Bar-Hillel, explains.

Our Vanishing Past

Mira Bar-Hillel investigates the increasing number of archaeological items being exported out of Britain.