Gruner studied in the local yeshiva, and was later driven by anti-Semitic Hungarian legislation to study abroad. He joined the Betar movement in 1938, and made aliyah in 1941.

Gruner refused to defend himself, standing on the principle that to do so would be to acknowledge the legitimacy of the British court. Dov was hanged at Acre prison on April 16, 1947.

Born in 1912 in Hungary, Dov was part of a Rabbinic and hassidic family. He made Aliyah in 1940 by organizing a ship of people escaping Europe, something considered illegal by the British who were ...

The phylacteries of Dov Gruner, who was hanged by the British in 1947, were identified in the archives of the Begin Center and are on display there during Passover.

The execution of Dov Gruner, member of the Irgun Zvai Leumi who was sentenced to death by a military court for participating in an attack on a Palestine police station, was today postponed for an ...

Despite threats of reprisal, Lieut. General Sir Evelyn Barker had confirmed the death sentence of Jewish Terrorist Dov Gruner. As promised, the terrorists struck. H. A. I. Collins, a director of a ...

Dov Gruner was still alive today, according to hi ## ##ttorney, Max Seligman, who said that he planned to visit the condemned man in Acre ##rison tomorrow. Rumors were rife throughout Palestine ...

I picked a young sergeant named Dov Gruner. Moshe Stempel was asked once by a journalist, “Why did you pick Dov Gruner to be first to the Wall?” “I did not pick him,” Stempel replied.

Immediately after WWII, Dov joined the underground Etzel movement, under the leadership of Menachem Begin. In 1946 he was part of a team which attacked the Ramat Gan police station, which was run ...