Clare, Benjamin, Dr.

Benjamin, son of Sara and Shlomo Clare, was born on January 30, 1901, in the city of Linnica, Bukovina, Romania. He studied with great diligence and outstanding success at the Rabbinical Seminary in Vienna, the main source of Torah where he was educated. In 1936 he immigrated to Israel and was immediately admitted to the “Mizrachi” Teachers’ Seminary in Jerusalem. He joined the university and later remained faithful to the teaching profession, and served as the substitute of the late Professor David Yellin in the teaching of the history of Hebrew grammar. On April 13, 1948, a convoy left for Mount Scopus, and the British promised that the road was open and safe. The convoy encountered an Arab ambush in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood and hundreds of Arabs hurled heavy gunfire at it. Some of the vehicles managed to get out and come back, but two buses, an ambulance and a escort vehicle were ambushed. Benjamin fell on this day and was buried in a mass grave in Sanhedria in Jerusalem.