ABSTRACT
The Revisionist parents suffered calumny and denigration, and were excluded not only from the mechanisms of power and influence, but also from the national narrative taught in the schools. The parents therefore preferred to live close to each other, in small groups of former fighters, in non-socialist, modest, middle-class urban neighborhoods such as Rehavia in Jerusalem, the Veterans’ Neighborhood in Ramat Gan, central Tel Aviv, and the traditional Yemenite neighborhoods. With the establishment of the state, the departure of the British, and the attainment of independence, the parents shed their uniforms and turned to the task of raising their families. The sons and daughters of these former fighters shared not only the common fate of their parents, but also names: names that eternalized the early Revisionists, the brothers-in-arms who had fallen in battle, and their parents’ underground aliases. The underground veterans’ children got to know each other. They met on the street, in the Beitar youth movement, at memorial ceremonies.
