Behar, Baruch

The fourth son of Donna and Isaac. Born on July 13, 1926 in Alexandria, Egypt, brother to seven brothers and sisters, Baruch was born after three daughters and was the first son of his parents, followed by three sons and a daughter, who was fluent in languages ​​and spoke Arabic, Greek French and Spanish, and after seven years of schooling in the elementary school in Alexandria, he worked as a photographer in the family’s economy and worked as a photographer during the seven years he worked as a photographer, joining the Zionist movements in Alexandria – Hechalutz Hatzair and Maccabi – May 29, 1946 With the help of the Mossad Le’Aliya Bet, the organization that organized the illegal immigration to Eretz Israel on behalf of the Haganah, Baruch was smuggled to Israel with When he finished, Baruch moved to live with his uncle, his mother’s brother, in Tel Aviv’s Hatikva neighborhood, and in May 1947 he joined the British Mandate Police as a guard in the British army and was stationed in the Sarafand camp (Zrifin) Of the day.) In Sarafand Baruch found among the Notrim friends of the Egyptian immigrants, and they spent their vacations together, the young men traveled in Israel, learned about its landscapes and visited the holy sites they had heard of before they immigrated to Israel. In livelihood. In October 1947, the Yishuv leadership issued an order calling on members of the enlisted generation to report to the Security Service prior to the declaration of the United Nations on the partition plan for Palestine and the establishment of the Jewish state. Baruch fulfilled what he saw as his civil duty and on October 16, 1947, he appeared at the Haganah recruitment office in Tel Aviv. He gave his personal details, was accepted as a member of the Haganah and continued to serve as a guard in Sarafand. The Haganah probably ordered him to continue in his post, because the British service framework served as an official cover for the activities of the underground guards. At an unclear date, at the end of 1947 or early 1948, Baruch left his home in Tel Aviv and did not arrive at the camp. At the same time, his money was no longer in his family. In 1950, his parents and family immigrated to Israel and began extensive searches for his tracks – but without results. Baruch was not found. His mother could not bear the great sorrow, and died a few years later, immediately after his father died. Baruch Behar fell during his service. He was twenty-two years old when he fell. Survived by his parents, four sisters and three brothers. In 2011, one of the family members went to the Missing Persons Locator Unit in the Ministry of Defense, and in July 2012, Baruch was recognized as an IDF soldier whose burial place is not known On March 1, 2012, the family was invited to a state ceremony on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem, Whose burial place is unknown, a memorial stone was placed in his memory in the section of the missing.