Swedish Diplomat. He was assassinated by the "Stern Gang" in Jerusalem, Palestine, while a United Nations mediator between the Arabs and the Israelis. He was the first United Nations mediator. Born into Swedish nobility, his parents had married without the King of Sweden's permission, resulting in his father losing his title. He was the nephew of Gustav V, the King of Sweden. He was given by another uncle the title of Prince Bernadotte and Count of Wisborg, and being addressed as Count Folke Bernadotte. He attended the Royal Military Academy and was commissioned a lieutenant in 1918, later reaching the rank of major. He was active with the Boys Scouts. During World War II, while working with the Red Cross, he organized prisoner exchanges, which continued after the war, bringing to Sweden from Nazi concentration camps 8,000 Danes and Norwegians, 5,911 Poles, 2,629 French, 1,615 Jews, and 1,124 Germans. On May 28, 1948, he accepted the appointment of United Nations mediator and a month-long cease fire was ordered for June 11th, and on September 17th, he and French Colonel André-Pierre Serot were assassinated by Zionist terrorist group, the "Stern Gang," led by Nathan Yalin-Mor. Prior to his death, his work did help in the early days of the State of Israel. In January of 1948, he published his book "Instead of Arms" shortly before his death. In 1998, Bernadotte was posthumously awarded one of the first three Dag Hammarskjold Medals given to United Nation peacekeepers who were killed in the line of duty. He married and the couple had four sons, with only two living to adulthood. His widow remarried in 1974. The Folke Bernadotte Memorial, which consist of a larger-than-life-sized statue, is located in Krusa, Denmark. A street was named in his honor in Gaza City. No one was convicted for the murder, but after the statute of limitations for the murder had expired in 1968, several members of the Stern Gang eventually came forward and admitted that they had been involved in the murder of Folke Bernadotte.