Broza (Briska), Zion

Zion, son of Rachel and Nissim Broza, was born in 1932 in Aleppo, Syria. He was five years old when orphaned from his mother. He studied at Kutav for several years and in the “cheder.” His father, who in the meantime married a second wife, immigrated with his family to Israel in 1944 and settled in Jerusalem. The second wife died, too, and the boy did not receive any further education. Sometimes he helped his father sell vegetables. Sometimes he was away from home for days. He did not get carried away by the stream of street life, but found the way to the Irgun underground, where he was educated and trained despite his young age. Zion was among the conquerors of the village of Malha, and in a counterattack by the Arabs on the village, on the 8th of Tammuz, 5708 (July 15, 1948), he fell at the age of 16. On 28 Elul (10.9.1950) Zion was transferred to eternal rest in the military cemetery at Mount Herzl in Jerusalem.