Born Mordechai Bankovich-Hendin in
Petah Tikva during the
Mandate era, Tzipori attended a religious school in his hometown. In 1939 he joined the
Irgun, and in 1945 was arrested by the British authorities and
exiled to Africa. He was interned in British detention camps in
Eritrea,
Kenya and
Sudan, where he was involved in digging escape tunnels. ==References==