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Egypt Hands Over Remains of Two Zionist Assassins Of British Minister Lord Moyne | June 1975

Wednesday, June 25th 1975 Footage of the handover in the Sinai desert of the remains of two members of the Mandate-era Jewish underground Eliyahu Hakim and Eliyahu Bet-Zuri. the assassins of Lord Moyne, by Egypt to Israel. Both men were members of Lehi, alternatively known as "The Stern Gang", which specialised in targeted assassinations. They had entered Egypt under the false identities of Moshe Cohen and Itzak Charles Salzmann. Lord Moyne, the British Minister Resident in the Middle East, was assassinated on November 6th 1944 in Cairo, Egypt. Both were immediately apprehended and tried before a military tribunal which convicted them and sentenced both men to death. They were hanged in Cairo on March 22nd 1945, while singing Hatikvah, the Zionist anthem, on the gallows. They were later reburied on Mount Herzl with full military honours. The remains of Hakim and Bait-Tsuri were exchanged for 20 Arabs jailed by the Israelis for security offences in occupied Sinai and the Gaza strip. Source of footage: Reuters News Archive. Note: 1. Yitzhak Shamir (nee Yezernitsky), in 1975 a member of the Israeli Knesset for the opposition Likud Party and a future Prime Minister, was called upon to identify the remains of Hakim and Bait-Tsuri, which were apparently well-preserved. Shamir was the commander who ordered Moyne's assassination. He would later also be part of the decision-making team which ordered the assassination of Count Folke Bernadotte, the United Nations Representative to the Middle East, in Jerusalem in September 1948. 2. The British government protested at the honour bestowed on Lord Moyne's assassins. James Callaghan, the British Foreign Secretary, ordered his ministry to issue a formal protest "to make it clear to the Israeli government that the British government very much regretted that an act of terrorism be honoured in this way."