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Cohen, Akiva

Cohen, Akiva

Son of Chava and Yaakov-Meir was born on 25 June 1924 in the Old City of Jerusalem. He studied at the Talmud Torah “Etz Chaim” and later at the “Mizrachi”. In 1943 he joined the Haganah and served in the Palmach unit, which was in Barot Yitzhak and Biriya, during which he was arrested along with his comrades, sentenced to four years in jail, transferred to the central prison in Jerusalem and released a year and a half later. He moved to Kibbutz Na’an and worked in a metal workshop, and when the War of Independence broke out after the United Nations General Assembly decided to divide the country into two states, he was among the members of the kibbutz who enlisted in the army. After his brother Habakkuk fell in the Hadassah convoy on Wednesday, he managed to reach Jerusalem to comfort his bereaved parents, but since the capital was cut off from the rest of the country he could not return to the kibbutz and enlisted in another company in the Harel Brigade. Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, and fell at the Deir Ayyub outpost, near Shaar Hagai, on the 29th of Iyar 5708 (June 7, 1948) and was buried in Sheikh Bader A. On September 10, 1950, He was laid to rest at the military cemetery on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem.

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