Aharoni, Yefet

The son of Miriam and Isaiah (Yaish). A brother to Aharon – Yihya, Shimon, Issachar, and Sa’ida. Born in 1931 in Yemen. Immigrated to Israel in 1944 with “Youth Aliyah” in a group of orphans from Yemen. He studied for several months at the Meir Shfeya Youth Village, but left the place for religious reasons. Yefet moved to Tel Aviv and studied at the Aaronson yeshiva and at the Kfar Ganim boarding school at the Rabbi Lavik Institute near Petah Tikva. During the War of Independence Yefet raised his age by two years in order to be accepted into the Palmach by the Yiftach Brigade, the third battalion that fought in the Galilee. He fought in the battles of the Upper Galilee to protect and conquer Safed, and he fell there on May 11, 1948. Yefet was laid to rest at the military cemetery in Safed, 17 years old, and left behind his parents, three brothers and a sister. At the request of the family, Yefet’s grave was taken from the Safed cemetery and reburied on 29.11.2011 to the military cemetery on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem in order to unite him with his beloved brother Aharon Yahya who fell in the Six Day War On the conquest of Jerusalem and is also buried on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem.