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Cohen, Daniel

Cohen, Daniel

Son of Mordechai. Born in 1914 in Budapest, capital of Hungary, to a rabbinic family, he was educated in religious institutions in a cheder and yeshiva, and at the age of sixteen he left his parents’ home and reached the famous yeshiva in Pressburg. He did not aspire to serve in the rabbinate and when he reached the age of eighteen he left the yeshiva and began to engage in commerce, but his love for Israel was so strong that despite the obstacles he left Budapest in 1934. He worked in the “Mirror” factory in 1934, Haganah “in Tel Aviv, with the outbreak of the 1936 riots. On 28 Nisan, April 20, 1936, the Hatikva neighborhood was attacked by Arabs. Daniel and other Haganah members were called upon to protect the neighborhood. On his way to the neighborhood, Daniel was attacked by Arabs and murdered with stabbing knives. Daniel was brought for burial in a mass grave with the other victims of that day in the cemetery in Tel Aviv. Daniel was immortalized in the books “The 1936 Riots,” “Blood and Fire, 1936-1937” and in a memory booklet for Hungarian immigrants.

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