Bashari, Abraham (Kushi)

Son of Miriam and Zechariah, was born on February 20, 1930, in the Sha’arayim neighborhood near Rehovot. He received his early education in Talmud Torah. At an early age, he began to work and to contribute to the household. Worked in carpentry and frames. As a member of Hanoar Haoved, he went to Nahalal for training, but his parents’ difficult situation forced him to return home two years later. From then until his enlistment he worked as a locksmith in a garage. On December 29, 1946, the British arrested him as a suspect in belonging to the Haganah, but after four months he was released from Latrun. On his 18th birthday, he joined the Carmeli Brigade and after a training period in the Sea Guard joined one of the battalions and immediately bought the hearts of his comrades. With his battalion, he set out for the conquest of Acre and its environs and for operations in the Western Galilee. He was later chosen as a sappers’ course. Upon completion of his training he was transferred with his battalion to the Eastern Galilee for operations in Mishmar Hayarden. He was very fond of his friends who nicknamed him “nigger.” On the day of the truce, on Wednesday, June 11, 1948, when he returned from transporting food to his friends in the outposts, his car was found on a mine near Hulata, and he was killed, and the last words of the dying boy were words of encouragement to his fellow fighters. Military cemetery in Safed.