D-Abila, Asher (Massoud)

Son of Victoria and Yitzhak, was born on January 26, 1924 in Jerusalem, the descendant of a family of rabbis in Morocco and grandson of one of the founders of the Western community in Jerusalem, and graduated from the Tachkemoni School and the Hebrew Gymnasium in Jerusalem. In the Haganah. Who went on a year of service in Kiryat Anavim. For three years he worked as a clerk in the British army’s payment office in Jerusalem. Who said to study at the Technion, but before that he joined the Nutras, in order to complete the year of service, and was sent to the Western Galilee. He served in Hanita and participated in escorting convoys during the winter of 1948. When he joined the army, he participated in the liberation of the entire Western Galilee and in battles on the “Triangle” front and was transferred to the Eastern Galilee. During the second truce, Kaukji’s forces attacked the outpost unexpectedly and it fell in their hands, and an armored company of the Carmeli Brigade attacked an attempt to retake the outpost, but without success. On October 23, 1948, he fell while serving as an radio liaison. Who was brought to rest at the military cemetery in Rosh Pina, near his comrades who fell with him