Cohen, Shlomo

Was born on May 24, 1928 in Kfar Gideon, where he studied at the elementary school and at the “Ahad Ha’am” Gymnasium in Petach Tikvah. After completing his matriculation exams, he joined the Palmach and served in Kfar Ruppin in the Beit She’an Valley. At the beginning of the summer of 1947, he was sent to work in a recruitment office that opened in Tel Aviv in order to recruit youth to the Palmach. At the end of that summer he was transferred to the unit that was stationed in Kiryat Anavim-Ma’ale Hahamisha. He fought for the opening of the Jerusalem-Tel Aviv road and the occupation of outposts in the area. After the road opened, he returned home to Petah Tikva for a few days and could not return to his unit because the road was blocked again. Shlomo was sent to the airport in Tel Aviv and served as an aircraft operator. He was cheerful by nature and gleeful around him. On May 10, 1948, on the way to the bombing of the Beit Mahsir, the plane was hit, crashed and crashed in an Arab environment in Abu Gosh, On September 30, 1948, he was laid to rest at the military cemetery in Kiryat Anavim.