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Bloomberg, Azriel

Bloomberg, Azriel

Son of Yitzhak. He was born on August 4, 1921 in Lithuania. As a child his father died and in September 1934 he immigrated alone to Palestine. In Israel his uncle referred him to the youth village in Ben Shemen. In 1940, at the outbreak of the Second World War, he was one of the members of the Jewish community who volunteered for the British army and among the twenty and three candidates for flying, selected from among the Palestinian soldiers. After completing the course he was a flight pilot. He held various positions throughout the Middle East, and also maintained close ties with the Aynot group and came to spend his holidays. On March 16, 1945, Azriel fell in the line of duty, killed in an airplane crash during his service in Egypt, where he was buried in the Jewish section of the British cemetery in Suez.

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