Yitzchak Hameiri

Yitzḥak Shvetzky was born in Kamenitz in 1914, and moved with his family to Brisk, Lithuania, at the age of 7. He changed his surname to "Hameiri" prior to his emigration to Israel in January 1935 at the age of 20. There he first worked as a labourer in Petaḥ Tikva, before being appointed secretary of the Revisionist-Zionist National Labour Federation in that city, and becoming a journalist for Herut and Ha-Mashkif. He was arrested by the British authoroties in 1939 for his involvement in the Haganah, for which he spent six months in a detention camp in Tzrifin. Hameiri was later elected a member of the Executive Committee of the National Labour Federation. After the War, he worked to raise funds for the Israeli independence in North and South America.

He was a passenger on El Al Flight 402, which was shot down on 27 July 1955 by two Bulgarian MiG-15 jet fighters and crashed near Petrich, Bulgaria, killing all passengers and crew aboard.

References

• "Yitzḥak Hameiri z"l". Ḥerut (2105). 29 July 1955. p. 1.
• "Yitzḥak Hameiri z"l: shalosh shanim le-moto". Ḥerut (3306). 31 July 1958. p. 3.
• יצחק המאירי. Hebrew Wikipedia.