In April 1951, Hersch Lauterpacht, who at that time held the prestigious Whewell Chair in International Law at Cambridge University, wrote his legal opinion on a somewhat peculiar matter. He was responding to Mordechai Shenavi, one of the founders of Hashomer Hatzair and the initiator of Yad Vashem, which came into official existence in 1953. […]
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