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Cohen, Yehoshua

Cohen, Yehoshua

Son of Rivka and Moshe was born on February 29, 1920, in Jerusalem, Until the age of 15 Yehoshua studied at a Talmud Torah and at the Kol Israel Haverim school. He lost his father at the age of 15. In the Second World War he volunteered for the British army. Yehoshua served for two and a half years and was released due to illness. He worked hard and diligently in a diamond factory, supported himself and supported his mother, Yehoshua was modest and quiet, but his heart did not allow him to stand by in the people’s war. With the outbreak of the War of Independence, Yehoshua volunteered to guard the borders for the Haganah and in April 1948 he joined the full mobilization of military custom as a driver in ” Givati “. In this role, during “yoav” Operation, on his return from a food transport to the Negev, Yehoshua was shot, on the 14th of Tishrai, October 17, 1948, by an enemy aircraft that landed low near Rehovot. Yehoshua was seriously injured, transferred to a military hospital and died on the same day during surgery. He was laid to rest in the military cemetery at Nahalat Yitzhak.

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