Cohen, Yehudit (Ora)

Daughter of Shulamit and Aaron. She was born in the winter of 1932 in the Zichron Yaacov settlement and moved to Herzliya, then to Ra’anana and to the Neve Tzedek neighborhood on the Tel Aviv-Jaffa border in 1933. Yehudit completed her elementary studies at “Hashachar” , Her academic achievements were excellent and she received a scholarship for excellence, she was very attracted to reading and writing essays and poems that were highly appreciated by her friends and teachers, and joined the Betar youth movement after some time without her parents’ knowledge of the Lehi underground, One day in November 1947, she told her parents that she was going to work with Becky On November 11, a large group of British soldiers and policemen attacked an abandoned building in Ra’anana, where a group of young men and women from a course in the ” And the soldiers and policemen began searching him. Five participants in the course Three boys and two girls who saw soldiers tried to escape from the building, but the force that surrounded them opened fire. Four young men were killed on the spot and Yehudit was seriously injured. The British secretly transferred her to the French hospital in Jaffa and guarded her. They tried to save her information about her underground comrades, but her spirit was not broken and she did not say anything. On November 12, 1947, she died of her wounds. She was laid to rest in the cemetery in Nahalat Yitzhak. She left her parents, three brothers and two sisters. Her name was immortalized in the book “Unknown Soldiers.”