Abraham Stavsky
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Abraham Stavsky ( ? – 1948) was an activist member of Betar, a Revisionsit Zionist group.
On June 18, 1933, Stavsky was arrested by the British Mandate police as a suspect in the June 16, 1933 murder of Chaim Arlosoroff. He was convicted on June 8, 1934, and sentenced to death. A public campaign to free him was launched, and an outspoken supporter was the Chief Rabbi of Palestine, Rav Kook. His conviction was overturned in 1934, by the highest British Court of Appeals in Palestine.[1]
Stavsky died in 1948,aboard the Altalena, a munitions ship commissioned by the Irgun and sunk by the Israeli army off the shore of Tel Aviv.
