29 July 1947 (aged 23) Acre Prison, Acre, Mandatory Palestine
Cause of death
Execution by hanging
Buried
Tzfat, Israel
Allegiance
Irgun
Battles/wars
World War II Jewish insurgency in Mandatory Palestine
Acre Prison break
Yaakov Weiss (Hebrew: יעקב וייס; 15 July 1924 – 29 July 1947) was a Hungarian Jew born in Czechoslovakia and member of the Irgun, a Jewish guerrilla organization in Mandatory Palestine. After saving hundreds of Jews during Holocaust, in which his own mother died, he illegally immigrated to Palestine, joined the Irgun, and fought the British during the Jewish insurgency in Palestine. He was one of three Irgun members executed for their part in the Acre Prison break, which triggered the Irgun's retaliatory hanging of two British soldiers.
Weiss, the last Zionist insurgent to be executed by British authorities in Mandatory Palestine, is memorialized today as one of 12 Olei Hagardom.
YaakovWeiss (Hebrew: יעקב וייס; 15 July 1924 – 29 July 1947) was a Hungarian Jew born in Czechoslovakia and member of the Irgun, a Jewish guerrilla organization...
Rabbi Yitzchok YaakovWeiss (15 February 1902 – 14 June 1989), commonly known as the Minchas Yitzchak after the responsa he authored, was the rabbi of...
attackers who were caught, three of them – Avshalom Haviv, Meir Nakar, and YaakovWeiss, were sentenced to death. After the death sentences of the three were...
sentences passed on three Irgun militants—Avshalom Haviv, Meir Nakar, and YaakovWeiss—were carried out. The three had been captured by the British during the...
Irgun men who took part in that attack (Avshalom Haviv, Meir Nakar, and YaakovWeiss) were captured during that attack and imprisoned and executed there....
court sentenced three Irgun fighters, Avshalom Haviv, Meir Nakar, and YaakovWeiss, to death for their role in the Acre Prison break. UNSCOP appealed to...
Rabbi Joel Teitelbaum of Satmar (1887–1979) 1979–1989: Rabbi Yitzchok YaakovWeiss (1901–1989; author of Minchas Yitzchak, formerly of Manchester Beth Din...
authorities as illegal immigrants. The raid freed 208 inmates, among them YaakovWeiss, who would go on to join the Irgun and eventually be hanged alongside...
member captured during the Acre Prison break, executed on July 29, 1947. YaakovWeiss, Irgun member captured during the Acre Prison break, executed on July...
too young to hang, the three others, Avshalom Haviv, Meir Nakar, and YaakovWeiss, were not. The Irgun immediately began looking for hostages. Two policemen...
civilian bus in the Galilee in 1938. Three (Avshalom Haviv, Meir Nakar, YaakovWeiss) participated in the 1947 Acre prison break. The rest attacked British...
Orthodox Jewry: Rabbis Moshe Feinstein, Chanoch Henoch Padwa, Yitzchak YaakovWeiss (the Minchas Yitzchak), and Shmuel Wosner. After the death of his father...
Others from the blocking squads taken prisoner were Avshalom Haviv, YaakovWeiss, Amnon Michaelov, and Nachman Zitterbaum. The trial of the five captured...
Yechiel Michel Tucazinsky, Rabbi Avraham Chaim Naeh, Rabbi Yitzchok YaakovWeiss, Rabbi Aharon Kotler and many others reject this opinion because it causes...
Yaakov Choueka, better known by his stage name Yaakov Shwekey, is an Orthodox Jewish recording artist and musical entertainer. He is of Egyptian and Syrian...
Avshalom Haviv, Meir Nakar, YaakovWeiss, Amnon Michaelov, and Nahman Zitterbaum, were tried in a British military court. Haviv, Weiss, and Nakar were sentenced...
rabbinical court) of Grosswardein, and his great-uncle, Dayan Yitzchok YaakovWeiss, the Minchas Yitzchak. Raised in the Boro Park neighborhood of Brooklyn...
well as on the halakhot of mikveh. As per the request of Rabbi Yitzchok YaakovWeiss, he was selected to serve as dayan on the Badatz of the Edah HaChareidis...
the daughter of Ezra Yaakov Basch of Szaplonca (Yiddish: Spinka), (now SăpânțaRomania), near the Hungarian border. In Spinka, Weiss would later become a...
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