Son of-Haim and Zahara-Sarah, was born in 1925 in Yemen in the settlement of Sirim el Oud. He was educated and studied in the room. A member of a Zionist and agricultural family that cultivated its private lands in Yemen. The family was persecuted by the authorities because they were a “Mokdisin” – the immigrants to the Holy Land. The members of the family, who were “in a position to prepare” for immigration, sent their first sons to Israel in 1935, while the rest of the family was delayed due to the problem of the sale of agricultural property and the debts owed to the family by the Arabs. Shalom As the eldest of the family, from the age of 13-14, he traveled with his father to the British city of Aden in southern Yemen to work and to pave the way for the family to immigrate to Eretz Israel. Eden, he worked hard, found resourcefulness and initiative, bought sewing machines for leather goods, rented a store, and with his brother David, he set up a shoemaking factory that employed a number of Jewish workers, and on Fridays and holidays distributed his profits to those in need. The father made an explicit condition that the two great sons, Shalom and David, wait and wait in the city of Eden until the rest of the children The father returned to Yemen, and the British closed the borders, and the Arabs refused to return the debt to him, and found no buyers for his land and property, and when he saw that the family was being delayed and that the gates of the country due to the Second World War were about to be closed, To take advantage of his private money to immigrate to Israel on a ship that sailed from Adan to the Suez Canal and from there on another ship sailed to the city of Kantara, And Macentra took the train to Camp Atlit. He arrived in Palestine in 1942. For the same reasons, his brother David also immigrated in 1944, two years later, and the family with its small children remained in distress from behind, separated from its great sons, and the days were the days of World War II, full of dangers lurking on the roads. Because of the rise of the sons, Zahara begged Father Chaim to leave everything … financial obligations and property … and illegally, to cross through the desert at night, the locked borders between Yemen and the British Eden and to hurry to Israel following the boys, In 1945, three years later, the son of Shalom was brought up. When he arrived in Israel, Shalom settled in Rehovot in the Sha’arayim neighborhood, close to his cousin Yefet Da’ari, who immigrated to Israel in 1935. Shalom established his residence in Rehovot because many residents of Al Oud, where his family lives in Yemen, live. Shalom was working in a mosaic building, guarding the train station in Rehovot and Tel Tal. He took a police policewoman course at the “children’s village” near Afula, worked for the Mandatory government and served for two years in Rehovot. When he came into contact with the British every day, he stood up for his hostile attitude toward the Yishuv, and as much as he could, he helped the underground movement Etzel, one of its most loyal members. Participated in the battles for the liberation of the Galilee in the Yiftah Brigade and was sent to Nir’am and to the settlement of Takuma, in order to reinforce the line of security guards of the water pipeline, which brought water from the wells of Mekorot of Niram, Dorot, and the surrounding areas to the remote settlements in the Negev. He accompanied convoys, fought in the Negev and took part in raids by the Northern Negev Battalion on the Arab rioters, endangering the passage of convoys sent from the center of the country to the besieged Negev. Shalom was a very sociable man, and he loved a vibrant social life. He easily acclimatized and absorbed by the native-born. He found great interest in the social life of the various “training members” who were sent from the settlements in the north and the center of the country, in order to reinforce and inhabit the Negev settlements. Although he was preoccupied with security matters, he continued to be interested in the parents and brothers who remained in Aden. He corresponded with the Jewish Agency and with the British authorities in order to obtain immigration certificates for a family expecting an aliyah in the city of Aden. They promised him, “When you are aliyah, they are the first.” He wrote to his brother David about the suit he had ordered for his wedding. He was impatiently awaiting a marriage break but did not get it. As part of the “Philist” operation, Shalom’s company assisted in the Givati attack on the Egyptian alignment in Ashdod. The attack was halted by heavy enemy fire and the forces were forced to retreat. This battle fell on May 3, 1948. Shalom and his comrades were temporarily buried in Nitzanim. On August 6, 1948, he was transferred to a mass grave at the Nahalat Yitzhak Military Cemetery, where his brother David, also a soldier in the Israel Defense Forces, received a letter of encouragement and condolences from the bereaved father, During her mother’s lifetime, Zahara was saddened by sadness, sorrow and grief, for not seeing Shalom again, her eldest son, she did not find comfort until the day she died, to commemorate her son’s memory, In the synagogue, while his brother David wrote a Torah scroll in his name and in the name of his father and the mother, to engrave his name, and the story of her son Shalom’s death on her gravestone in the Zichron- In Bnei Brak.
