Ben-Yishai (Golombovich), Baruch

Baruch, son of Dovrusha and Pesach Golombovich (son of-Yishai), was born on December 19, 1914 in Pinsk (Russia-Poland) to an established Zionist family. He lost his father when he was about three years old, and his mother educated him in the Hebrew-national spirit and when he was eleven years old, she sent him to Eretz Israel, to his uncle. He finished school at the age of 16. At the age of 21, he traveled overseas to tour and study. He passed through Italy and Switzerland almost completely by foot.
He returned to Israel to continue his studies at the University in Jerusalem and in 1939, he joined the British army and took part in the conquest of Syria. Due to illness, he was discharged from the army two years later and, on his return to Jerusalem, devoted himself to caring for impoverished children. He traveled to France and England, and from there sailed to the United States. When the War of Independence drew near, his conscience called him back to Israel.
With the outbreak of the War of Independence, he renewed his activities in the Jewish Brigade and on January 17, 1948, he left with his company in Ma’aleh Hahamisha. On January 19, 1948, he went to Jerusalem to participate in the Pedagogic Council of Hadassah, and on the way, near Kiryat Anavim was shot and died in agony in the middle of the night. He left behind a wife and a four-year-old boy. He was buried in the cemetery on Har HaZeisim. 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 soldiers who fell in the battle for Jerusalem and were buried on Har HaZeisim.