Aaron, Zion

Son of Ezra Hacohen and Najila. He was born in 1938 in Baghdad, the capital of Iraq, and immigrated to Israel in 1951. After completing his studies at the elementary school in Yad Eliyahu, he was forced to go to work to help with the agriculture of the family, In December 1955, but completed a few months of service and was released because of the necessity of supporting his parents. At the outbreak of the Six-Day War, called to reserve duty and on the 28th of Iyar 5727 (7.6.1967), the third day of the battles, fell in a battle south of Umm Katef on the way to Kutzayma in Sinai. Put a wife and a baby about six months old in the fall of her father. He was buried in the military cemetery in Bari and was later transferred to eternal rest in the Kiryat Shaul military cemetery.