Eshkoli, Aharon-Ze’ev

Son of-Hinda and Haim-Meir was born in Lodz, Poland in 1924. He immigrated to Palestine on 1924 in a land full of obstacles and adventures. He was crowned with a doctorate in philosophy and a rich past in Zionist activities from his youth. He has written and written in Hebrew, Arabic, Habashish, Russian, Polish, English, French, German, Italian and Yiddish. Historian, writer and educator. He has published 15 books and more than 200 articles on scientific, historical, educational and cultural subjects, on Hasidism, Habash, Mahabashic translations, the messianic idea of ​​all generations, and a three-volume book called “The Book of the Mashiach”. He taught in high schools in Jerusalem and was active in the Haganah. Although he was married and had a daughter and an elderly man of his age, he volunteered during the Second World War for the British Army. Served first as a private soldier and when he was hired there, he was appointed as a guide and later as a military chaplain. He served in the Egyptian and Syrian fronts and moved with the Jewish Brigade to Italy. Where he organized welfare institutions and served as liaison officer between the British army and Allied forces. At the end of 1945, he was discharged from the British army and directed the seminar for preschool teachers founded by the late Dr. Yitzhak Epstein. At the beginning of the War of Independence he volunteered for service and was one of the first organizers of the recruitment centers of the General Staff in Jerusalem. With the first casualties in the battles, he took upon himself the difficult task of delivering the messages to the bereaved and orphaned families and the welfare activities for them. On his initiative, the Department for the Commemoration of the IDF Soldier was established, and he served with dedication and greater strength, first during the battles in Jerusalem and later in the second truce, On December 6, 1948, while traveling on a mission from Haifa to Tel Aviv, they attacked the Stroke-Lev route. He was taken to Beilinson Hospital where he died. The next day he was buried in Jerusalem. On the 17th of Sivan 5761 (21.6.1951) he was put to rest at the military cemetery on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem.