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Moshe Barazani was a Kurdish Jew and a member of Lehi. He was born in Iraqi Kurdistan into a Jewish family that moved to Jerusalem when he was an infant. He joined Lehi at an early age and took part in sabotage operations. He was arrested during a curfew, charged with conspiracy to murder British Brigardier A. P. Davis and sentenced to death by hanging by a British military court on April 21, 1947. However before the execution, he and his comrade Meir Feinstein committed suicide in their cells in the Central Prison in the Russian Compound in Jerusalem with improvised grenades which had been smuggled inside oranges. more...