Avihud (Levi), Yaakov (Avshalom)

Son of Nissim-Raphael and Tova. He was born on February 19, 1917 in Jerusalem. His father, the founder and principal of the first boys’ school in Jerusalem, was a descendant of the families of rabbis and talmidei chachamim and descendants of the guardians of the holy city walls; His mother is a kindergarten teacher by profession, one of the first in Israel. He completed his studies at the Beit HaKerem Teachers’ Seminary and studied for a year at the Hebrew University. A lover of literature and art, especially music. He was a teacher and a youth counselor. He was a member of the Haganah, served in the War of Independence with the rank of Major, and after that he spent three years on the mission of the Ministry of Defense. Talented, faithful to his role, bold and at the same time cautious in all his actions. He fell ill and died of his illness on the 11th of Tevet 5712 (11.1.1952). He was laid to rest in the military cemetery on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem. He left a wife and a child. In “Thirty” a library was established in his memory – “Avshalom Library” (“Avshalom” was his nickname in the underground).