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Albuquer, Jacob

Albuquer, Jacob


Born in 1899 in the city of Monastir, Bessarabia, to a privileged Sephardic Jewish family, his parents were careful to educate him in the tradition of tradition, and he kept him from intervening in the vicinity of the foreigners. In 1921 he immigrated with his wife to Eretz Israel in order to fit in with the land, and Jacob found it very difficult to support his family, and for a long time he suffered in silence without anyone sharing his doubts. He settled with his family in Jerusalem and sold fish for his livelihood, and soon became a familiar figure and became a Mashiach with all his friends He was a man of depth, who was alert and inquisitive about what was happening in the country, and understood the difficulties and troubles that plague the people.In the days of the riots Yaakov was one of the first volunteers to defend, and he changed his mind by defending the places The most dangerous in Jerusalem on August 23, 1929. He was murdered by Arabs in the Romema neighborhood, followed by a wife and children, and a list of his figure was published in the book “Yizkor 1929”

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