Anukshvili, Abraham

Son of Avigail and Yitzhak, born in 1921 in the city of Kutaisi, Georgia, arrived in Israel from Turkey in 1940. He lived in the Shapira neighborhood near Tel Aviv and worked as a laborer in every job he encountered. He was an active member of the Haganah. Avraham joined the Israel Defense Forces and served in the Carmeli Brigade. He fought in battles to stop the Syrians in the Mishmar Hayarden region, where he fell on 9 Tammuz, July 16, 1948). He was twenty-seven when he fell. On October 8, 1948) was transferred to the eternal rest of the military cemetery in Rosh Pina.