Cohen, Yosef

Son of Sarah and Abraham, was born in 1925 in the city of Alexandria, Egypt, and studied at the Alliance School. When he was 12 years old, he died from his parents and grew up in his uncle’s home. He studied knitting and worked in it, and during the Second World War he worked in the warehouses of the British army in Egypt. From a deep-seated Zionist aspiration, the family infiltrated the country in 1945 through the desert border. When he arrived in Israel he worked in the orchards of Gan Haim near Kfar Sava. The decision of the United Nations General Assembly on 29 November 1947 to partition the country into two states and the outbreak of the War of Independence found him exhausted and weakened in his body, but at such a time, “the weak will say a selfish hero.” Yosef was forgotten in his unit, , And completed a sabotage course and took part in the operations of the battalion and when he came for a brief visit to his home he did not say a word about his actions and his experiences, because a soldier should know how to keep quiet, and recently fought in the Jenin sector. On the night of June 2-3, the Carmeli Brigade attacked Jenin and occupied the outposts controlling the city. Who had moved to Samaria after his failure in the Jordan Valley, gathered his forces and attacked them, and upon the pressure of this attack, our forces were forced to withdraw, and on this day, on the 3rd of Iyar 5708 (June 3, 1948). ) Was brought to rest at the military cemetery on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem.