serviceyears native_name_lang death_date death_place placeofburial_coordinates birth_place allegiance native_name birth_date nickname placeofburial image article_title name
1929-1942 hebrew february 12 , 1942 tel aviv , mandatory palestine 32.072 ° n 34.804 ° e suwalki , poland haganah , irgun , lehi אברהם שטרן december 23 , 1907 yair nahalat yitzhak cemetery , givatayim , israel avraham stern.jpg avraham stern
 avraham stern
avraham stern

avraham stern -lrb- , `` avraham shtern '' -rrb- , alias yair -lrb- ; december 23 , 1907 -- february 12 , 1942 -rrb- was one of the leaders of the jewish paramilitary organization irgun .
in september 1940 , he founded a breakaway militant zionist group named lehi , called the `` stern gang '' by the british colonial authorities and by the mainstream in the yishuv jewish establishment .
