Aharoni, Yosef

Son of Yocheved and Eliahu, was born on December 5, 1922 in the city of Harat, Afghanistan, and immigrated to Israel in 1937, Yosef settled in Jerusalem and lived there all his life. Yosef was an active member of the Hanoar Haoved movement. He appreciated the time, and lived with the feeling as if he had not had many years left and still had to do much more. Along with maturity and seriousness, and self-sacrifice, in 1945, he joined the “Hishas” Company and at the outbreak of the War of Independence he was one of the first escorts of Gush Etzion, Neve Ya’akov and other places around Jerusalem, and was sent to reinforce the Old City, Neve Yaakov and Atarot. In mid-May, after the evacuation of these two settlements, he returned to Jerusalem on the 19th of Iyar, May 28, 1948, when Yosef was on guard duty at the Russian Compound, an enemy shell exploded nearby, and Yosef was wounded by shrapnel from the shell and died of his wounds. He was buried in Sheikh Bader A. On Elul 25,September 10, 1950, he was transferred to the military cemetery at Mount Herzl in Jerusalem.