Rabbi Moshe Segal Passover postcard Jerusalem 1940

Rabbi Moshe Segal Passover postcard Jerusalem 1940

Some highlights of Rabbi Segal´s life:

Defended Tel Aviv during the 1929 riots as a member of the Hagganah.

Cofounder of the Etzel military movement.

Arrested in 1930 for sounding the Shofar against British Mandate law.  Was released after Chief Rabbi Kook entered a hunger strike and called the British high comissioner.

He continued to organize the blowing of the Shofar every year until the establishment of the State of Israel