Yehudah Arazi
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Yehuda Arazi (1907-1959), code name Alon, was a Polish Jew active in the Haganah paramilitary in Palestine and subsequently the Israeli Defense Force after the creation of the state of Israel.
Arazi was born in Lvov in 1907. He immigrated with his parents to Tel Aviv in 1924, studying in the Gymnasia Herzlia. While in Palestine, Arazi joined Haganah and the Palestine British Police. As a police officer, he was most notably involved as the investigating officer in the 1933 murder of Chaim Arlosoroff. In 1936, Arazi was sent back to Poland to help smuggle war materiel to Palestine.
After the independence of Israel in 1948, Arazi became a private businessman and built the Ramat-Aviv Hotel. He died in 1959.
