Chugi, Shlomo

Naomi’s eldest son (Amoma) and Zion. Was born in 1922 in Baghdad, the capital of Iraq. He studied and was educated in Jewish schools in his city, belonged to a Zionist youth organization and in 1936 immigrated with his parents, his brothers and sisters, and helped smugglers to Palestine. The family settled in Jerusalem, the economic situation was difficult and Shlomo volunteered to help and took every casual job. He loved sports, especially football, and a lot of wood carving. At the outbreak of the Second World War, Shlomo responded to the call of Yishuv institutions and volunteered for the British army. After basic training he was trained as a transport driver and sent to serve in Egypt and the Western Desert. He was attached to Unit 179 for General Transport, where he served until the day of his death in a road accident on 2 Cheshvan, October 13, 1942. Shlomo was brought to burial in the British Military Cemetery in Muaskar near Cairo. He is mentioned in “The Book of Volunteering,” “The Yearbook of the Journalists”, and the Yizkor Book of the Jabotinsky Institute.