Atari (Mizrahi, Aga), Yosef

Son of-Miriam and Agha Avraham was born in Jerusalem in 1928. He received his education at the Talmud Torah, Or Chaim, Beit Aharon, In order to help support the family, and enlisted in the Irgun (National Military Organization). His underground name was Ze’ev-Avshalom and his friends called him Atari. Somehow his name came to the British Intelligence, which arrested him and he was sent to the detention camp in Rafah and later to the Latrun detention camp. He sat there for six months until he was released. After his release, he increased his activity in the underground and took a large part in the activities that were carried out by it. With the decision of the United Nations General Assembly to divide the country into two states, Yosef participated in the defense of Jerusalem, and his friends remember him as a modest, humble and kind man. To the position where Nora was shot by a burst of gunfire that killed him and he was killed on the spot. Joseph was brought to eternal rest in a grave on the Mount of Olives, in Jerusalem. Laid a father, two sisters, a brother and a grandmother. His name was engraved on the monument erected in the military cemetery on Mount Herzl in memory of those who perished in the Jewish Quarter and the memory of fighters who fell in battle for Jerusalem and were buried in the Mount of Olives