Ze'ev Iviansky

Ze'ev Iviansky was born in 1923 in Lida

Iviansky was born in 1923 in Lida, then part of the Second Polish Republic, to a Zionist family. He studied at Tarbut Hebrew schools in Lida and Vilnius and joined the Zionist Youth movement at age 10.

After the Soviet occupation in 1939 he was active in a Zionist youth underground. In January 1940 he crossed the border to Vilnius, joined cells founded by Avraham Stern, and later helped found the Tal underground.

He reached the Land of Israel in March 1941 and studied at the Youth Aliyah agricultural school in Magdiel. There he renewed his ties with Lehi, and in the War of Independence he fought in the Moria Battalion.

He was among the founders of Kibbutz Yiron and later a member of Ein Harod Meuhad. He helped initiate Yad LaYeled and the Holocaust studies institute at Beit Lohamei HaGetaot.

In the 1970s he lectured at the Hebrew University on revolutionary movements and terrorism. He wrote Individual Terror, Theory and Practice in 1977 and contributed to a 1988 Hebrew book on the 1905 revolution. He died in 2022.