ABSTRACT

On 21 November 1984 Meir Agassi and David Ehrenfeld, two employees of the chevrah kadishah (“burial society”) of the town of Rishon Lezion, were sentenced to three months in prison by the Rehovot Magistrates’ Court for removing the remains of Tereza Anghelovici from her grave in the Rishon Lezion Jewish Cemetery in the darkness of the night of 1 March 1984 and dumping them in a Moslem cemetery in Ramie. On 19 June 1984, the Israeli courts lifted their ban against publication of the names of the twenty-eight men accused of participation in acts of terror organized by the “Jewish underground.” Photographs and short biographies of all of them immediately appeared in the press and on television. The biographies usually mentioned the army experience, if any, of the accused, the particular deeds or plots in which he was implicated, and the yeshivot in which he had studied or taught.