Cohen, Yachiya

Son of Shalom. He was born in 1921 in Eretz Israel and lived in Tel Aviv, where he joined the British army and was assigned to the 462 unit of the Transportation Corps, served in El Alamein and on 28.4.1943 sailed with three hundred soldiers of his unit on board the ship ” The purpose of the voyage was Malta, and the purpose was to help the Allies in the invasion of Sicily On t27 Nisan, May 1, 1943, a German aircraft carrier attacked the convoy of ships that the “Aryanpora” headed. It suffered two direct hits and within minutes began to sink in. Along with the sinking ship were also a hundred and forty soldiers of the unit 462. Yachiya was among them. He is mentioned in the Yizkor Book of the Jabotinsky Institute and in the Book of the Year in 1946. In the military cemetery on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem, a ship-like monument was erected in memory of the missing, and next to it is a small water pool with the names of the hundred and forty fallen.