Banai participated in a long list of combat missions including the preparations and attack on the British high commissioner in Palestine , Sir Harold MacMichael . This attack was claimed to be retaliation for the Struma disaster . He also took part in the assassination of Thomas Wilkin , the head of the Criminal Investigation Department ( CID ) Jewish Affairs Bureau . Wilkin was assassinated for his involvement in the killing of Abraham Stern . In his memoirs , Banai recalled that the order to assassinate Wilkin came directly from Yitzhak Shamir , the head of Lehi who eventually became the Prime Minister of Israel
Struma disaster
Struma disaster
Yaakov Banai