Blob, Joseph

Son of Sarah-Leah and Abraham-Isaac. He was born in 1898 in Brusov, in White Russia. In 1914, when he was 16, he immigrated to Palestine as a pioneer, but with the outbreak of the First World War he was deported to Egypt by the Turkish regime like the other foreign subjects. In 1917 he volunteered for the Jewish Legion and served as a mechanic. After he was released, he worked for the PIKA company as the driver of the Haganah, where he joined the ranks of the Haganah and in 1921 was used to transfer weapons to communities in the Upper Galilee and especially to Tel Hai. He also worked as a tractor engineer in Sejera, Kfar Tavor and Binyamina, and even at the “large mills” in Haifa. In 1925, he immigrated to Israel with his parents and two sisters, and established his own family with Yehudit (nee Shapira). In 1936 he went with his family to France, but two years later he returned and worked for the potash company in the northern Dead Sea and later as a driver of a transport company in Jerusalem. On the 7th of Kislev (30.11.1938), during the riots, he was on his way to Jerusalem, and near Ramle, when he went down to a flat tire in his truck, was ambushed by Arabs and killed. He was laid to rest in the Nahalat Yitzhak cemetery. His son, Avner, was killed in Kiryat Anavim in the War of Independence.