Ben-Zahav, Peretz

Son of Rachel and Eliahu, was born in 1914 in the town of Drohitsyn, Poland and immigrated to Palestine in 1935. On the 17th of Tevet 5708 (30.12.1947), an angry Arab mob attacked the Jewish workers in the refineries and massacred them. Among those killed was Peretz. He was brought to eternal rest in the Holy Land section of the Haifa cemetery. He left a wife and two daughters.