Abi, Elijah

Son of Esther and Mordechai Yosef. He was born in 1907 in Poland. At a young age he died from his mother, was educated by his father, a rabbi in the great community of Lublin. From his early years he moved to the Land of Israel and in this respect turned to Hechalutz, but because of his youth he did not receive a certificate for immigration. He also encountered resistance from his parents to his aliyah, which led to his escape from the house when he was 16 years old. He crossed the border of the country, arrived in Vienna, and in the Palestine office on the Austrian capital. He received a permit to immigrate to Eretz Israel in 1922. At first he joined the builders in the colony, where his friends met him as a cheerful and energetic young man who danced and sang a little bit about space and heroism. After a while he enlisted in the “excellent police” and mounted his horse. He spent a long time in the school corps of Transjordan, where he served in remote desert corners. After the Jews were removed from the elite police force, Eliyahu served as a Jewish policeman for three years in Haifa, in the Jezreel Valley settlements, in Afula and Safed. After the riots he married a wife and on the occasion of his marriage he asked to be transferred from Arab Qalqiliya to Jaffa, and his request was rejected, and then he left the police, moved to Tel Aviv, where he first worked as a laborer And later as a builder, and at the outbreak of the 1936 riots he enlisted as another policeman at the Tel Aviv train station. In May 1938, the Solel Boneh Company began the “Northern Fence,” aimed at stopping the movement of Arab gangs from the north to the interior of the Jewish community. On May 23, 1938, he fell on his way back from the fencing work near the village of Sasa, at the age of 31. He left a wife and a child and was laid to rest in the old cemetery in Tel Aviv