Yaakov Weiss | |
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| Native name | יעקב וייס |
| Born | 15 July 1924 Nové Zámky, Czechoslovakia |
| Died | 29 July 1947 (aged 23) Acre Prison, Acre, Mandatory Palestine |
| Cause of death | Execution by hanging |
| Buried | |
| Allegiance | Irgun  |
| Battles / wars | World War II Jewish insurgency in Mandatory Palestine |
Yaakov Weiss (Hebrew: יעקב וייס; 15 July 1924 – 29 July 1947) was a Hungarian Jew born in Czechoslovakia and member of the Irgun, a Jewish guerrilla organization in Mandatory Palestine. After saving hundreds of Jews during Holocaust, in which his own mother died, he illegally immigrated to Palestine, joined the Irgun, and fought the British during the Jewish insurgency in Palestine. He was one of three Irgun members executed for their part in the Acre Prison break, which triggered the Irgun's retaliatory hanging of two British soldiers.
Weiss, the last Zionist insurgent to be executed by British authorities in Mandatory Palestine, is memorialized today as one of 12 Olei Hagardom.