Bilu (Philo), Isaac

Son of Sarah and Shimon. He was born on September 19, 1926, in Salonika, Greece. In 1933, he immigrated to Israel with his parents and began his studies at the Alliance school in Tel Aviv, where he joined the Betar youth movement and joined the Irgun Zvai Leumi. At the age of 14 he was orphaned from his father who was killed during his service in the Brigade. Due to his extensive activity in the Irgun, he was forced to miss a lot of his work and found it difficult to get regular work, but despite the need and desire to help his widow’s economic distress, he did not stop and even increased his activity. He continued to stand on his guard even when he was seriously wounded in the exchange of fire with the soldiers of the camp and did not let his captors feel his weakness, and only when he gave the signal of withdrawal did he inform his friends of his injury. On April 23, 1946, he was invited to participate Lt diversion intended to cover the Irgun attack on police in Ramat Gan. Yitzhak and two of his friends were ordered to set fire to the barrack in Tel Aviv. After they reached their destination, Yitzhak lit a bomb, but it was dropped from his hand and then he threw himself at it to prevent it from exploding near the burning materials his comrades had in hand. Although he was severely wounded in the stomach, he fought with the policemen who arrived in the area and two hours later he died. He was laid to rest at the Nahalat Yitzhak cemetery near Tel Aviv. He laid a mother and three sisters.