Bavli, Joseph

Son of-Margalit and Nissim was born on October 10, 1925. In Jerusalem, he studied at a public school and afterwards in a high school in Jerusalem, and his teachers gave him every responsible position, and in his love of truth, integrity and character When the Second World War broke out – and he was still a student – he left school and enlisted in the British Navy After his release, near the end of the war, he devoted himself entirely to the British Navy, And at the age of 21 he married and made a living as a mechanic in the Ford garage in Jerusalem. In the early morning, without telling where he was going, he parted from his family with a smile on his face. He took a bus to the Talpiot neighborhood that evening, the bus was attacked and he was mortally wounded. The next day, on the 31st of Tevet 5748 (December 31, 1947), Joseph was brought to the cemetery on the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem. 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 the battle for Jerusalem and were buried on the Mount of Olives.