Cohen-Haramati (Haim), Haim
Son of Shoshana (Shim’a) and Shalom (a Yemenite publicist), who immigrated from Yemen in 1912 and were then called Araki. Haim was born on 21.4.1928 in Moshav Mahane Yehuda, near Petah Tikva, where he studied in a traditional “cheder” in the Yemenite style and then at the Netzach Israel elementary school in Petach Tikva, where he excelled in his studies and behavior at home He joined the Irgun underground and was dedicated to every position. Despite his young age, he was able to keep a secret as one of the greatest, and during his time as a member of the persecuted underground he studied for a while in the Max Payne vocational school and stopped his studies so that he could devote himself to his duties. He still tried and studied 14 correspondence lessons from the Telem school in Jerusalem, but also stopped his studies because of his underground activities. Haim knew practical accounting and worked for seven months at the local branch office of Hanoar Haoved. For a time he worked in the Petah Tikva municipality. He liked Hebrew poetry, and was fond of his knowledge of his virtues, his willingness to help others, his loyalty to the truth in all his ways, and the general sympathy removed suspicion. Nevertheless, the British secret service gave him his eyes and sat him down for several months in a detention camp in Latrun. When he was released, he worked at the center of a national health fund. He participated in all Etzel activities, in patrols, in training, in attacks on the British army stationed on Mount Carmel and in other places, because of a cold in one of his activities, his health was undermined, but he did not waste time healing. “He continued to fight as a healthy person in the systems of Jaffa, Ramleh, Yehudia, etc., and even when he joined his friends in the IDF, he did not remember or mention his internal experiences and continued to fight as a fighter in the Givati Brigade. When he fell once in a painful fit, he was treated in a hospital, but he did not manage to reach the final cure. During Operation “Yoav” the breakthrough to the Negev went into action despite the high heat and fell in battle on Hill 113 on the 14th of Tishrei (17.10.1948). He was laid to rest at the Warburg military cemetery. On the combat page of the Givati Brigade, dated October 21, 1948, a Vickers machine gun was named after one of the spoils of the enemy, which was given for combat use by our soldiers
