Dahan, Yaakov (Jacques)

Son of Sarah and Abraham, was born the 10th of Nissan, April 19, 1910 in Haifa, where he spent his childhood and his youth in Zichron Yaakov. In 1931 he went to France and returned to Israel in 1935. He married and fathered two children. In 1939 he joined the French army and served in an artillery regiment in Beirut. He returned to Israel and as a member of the Hagana he often risked transporting arms from place to place. He was sent to Tel Aviv and was responsible for the protection of the Reading power station. In the spring of 1948Yaakov joined the anti-aircraft defense unit with the rank of sergeant. On the sixth of Iyar, May 15, 1948, began the first bombing by Egyptian planes on Tel Aviv. Yaakov fell while on duty, and was brought to eternal rest in the cemetery in Zichron Yaakov.