Berman, Yaakov

During the First World War he lived in London, England, where he volunteered for the Jewish Legion – the 38th Battalion of the King’s Rifles. Together with the battalion he arrived in Palestine to participate in the conquest of the Turks. He fought in battles on the way to Nablus and in the battle for the conquest of the Jordan River. At the beginning of October 1918, the battalion conducted an arduous journey from the Jordan Valley to Jerusalem accompanied by Turkish prisoners. Many of the soldiers fell ill, Yaakov among them. On 19.10.1918 he died of his illness and was laid to rest in the “Shabtai” Jewish cemetery in Alexandria, Egypt.