Meir Tobianski, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Israeli, wrongly executed for treason 1948, posthumously rehabilitated 1949
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Place of Birth: Kaunas, Kaunas County
About Meir Tobianski
- Meir Tobianski (Hebrew: ???? ??????????, also Tubianski; 20 May 1904 – 30 June 1948) was an officer in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) who was executed as a traitor on circumstantial evidence on the orders of Isser Be'eri, the first director of the IDF's intelligence branch.
- A year after the execution, Tobianski was exonerated of all charges. Tobianski was born in Lithuania and served as a major in the British army during the Second World War, then a captain in the Haganah, and was later sworn into the IDF on 28 June 1948, during the Israeli War of Independence.
- He was also the former commander of Camp Schneller, a military base in Jerusalem.
- In June 1948 Tobianski had been transferred to command of Jerusalem airstrips.
- He was an employee of the British-run Jerusalem Electric Corporation.
- Suspected of passing information on targets for Jordanian artillery, he was taken into custody and sentenced to death by firing squad in a drumhead court-martial.
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