Carasso (Yehezkeli), Zilpa

Daughter of Frida Hatzkilevich and David, was born in 1893 in Kishinev, then the capital of Serbia in Russia. During the Kishinev Revolt, her father was murdered and she was raised in Israel in 1905 by Israel Belkind and educated at the Kiryat Sefer Institute in Shfeya, which he founded for orphans of the Kishinev pogroms. After a short while she returned to Kishinev, at her mother’s request, to testify at the trial against the rioters and made a shocking impression in her testimony. After the trial she returned to Israel with her mother and the whole family and settled in Jerusalem. Zlava studied and then worked at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design. At the age of 16, she married one of her teachers, who was then 28 years old. Shortly afterwards, during World War I, she divorced him. She graduated with honors from a nursing course and later worked in Turkish military hospitals in Jerusalem and Beirut, where she married doctor Dr. Carasso and lived with him for more than 10 years until his death, and later she died in solitary confinement. And later in Bikur Cholim Hospital in Jerusalem, was devoted to the sick and supported her relatives and acquaintances, and tried to conceal the grief of her loneliness in the War of Independence, volunteering to serve in Kfar Etzion and reaching the village in the last convoy, May 13, 1948 during her service in the clinic’s shelter under the headquarters building (the German monastery). On the 17th of Cheshvan 5710 (17.11.1949), she was sent to eternal rest with the rest of the victims of the Gush at the military cemetery on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem