Editing Folke Bernadotte (section)

===Planning and background===
Journalist Baruch Nadel planned the murder.<ref>{{Cite news |date=1970-09-27 |title=Falscher Brief |url=https://www.spiegel.de/politik/falscher-brief-a-e40d4307-0002-0001-0000-000044418139 |access-date=2024-04-13 |work=Der Spiegel |language=de |issn=2195-1349}}</ref> The Stern Gang saw Bernadotte as a puppet of the British and the Arabs and therefore a serious threat to the emerging State of Israel.<ref name=Heller95/>{{rp|239–255}} Most immediately, a truce was in force, and Lehi feared that the Israeli leadership would agree to Bernadotte's peace proposals, which it considered disastrous.<ref name=Heller95/>{{rp|passim}}<ref>Ben-Yehuda, Nachman. ''Political Assassinations by Jews''. SUNY Press 1993 {{ISBN|978-0-7914-1165-0}}, pp. 267–274.</ref> The group was unaware the Israeli government had already decided to reject Bernadotte's plan and to take the military option.<ref name=Ilan89/>{{rp|200–201}}<ref>Shamir, ''loc. cit.'', p. 241.</ref>

The killing was approved by the three-man 'center' of Lehi: Yitzhak Yezernitsky (the future [[Prime Minister of Israel]] [[Yitzhak Shamir]]), Nathan Friedmann (also called [[Natan Yellin-Mor]]) and [[Yisrael Eldad]] (also known as Scheib). A fourth leader, [[Emmanuel Strassberg]] (Hanegbi) was also suspected by the Israeli Prime Minister [[David Ben-Gurion]] of being part of the group that ordered the assassination.<ref name=Ilan89/>{{rp|194}}<ref>
[[J. Bowyer Bell]], Assassination in International Politics, ''International Studies Quarterly'', vol 16, March 1972, 59–82.
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{{cite news |first= Clyde |last= Haberman |author-link= Clyde Haberman |title= Terrorism Can Be Just Another Point of View |url= https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=990CEFDF153EF931A15751C0A963958260&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=all |work=Books of the Times |publisher= New York Times |date= February 22, 1995 |access-date=2008-12-28 |quote= Mr. Shamir, nearly 80, still speaks elliptically about the Bernadotte assassination. Years later, when Ben-Gurion moved to a kibbutz in the Negev desert, Sdeh Bokker, one of his closest friends there was Yehoshua Cohen, who had been one of the assassins.
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The assassination was planned by Lehi's Jerusalem operations chief, [[Yehoshua Zettler]].<ref name="Kifner1988"/>