Ezra, Shalom

Son of Sarah and Jacob, was born on September 24, 1930, in Jerusalem, and his parents were residents of Hebron after the 1929 riots. In 1938 the family returned to Hebron, but left again with the outbreak of the bloody riots of 1936-1939. Shalom studied at the “Mizrachi” Talmud Torah in Jerusalem, and after graduating from elementary school he began to work and help He was the eldest of eight sons, and worked with his father in the manufacture of cheese and was a member of the Haganah. With the outbreak of the War of Independence he was among the first volunteers and was responsible for positions in the sector near the main road. Shalom was sent to trainings around Tel Aviv and after completing the course he was assigned to accompany convoys on the Jerusalem-Tel Aviv line. In one of the reinforcements he left for Gush Etzion as a squad commander. Elem was quiet, responsible and pleasant – peace fell on the fall of the bloc on Wednesday, May 13, 1948, when he was in an extreme position at the “wooden hill” in Kfar Etzion, where he fought until his machine gun bullets were exhausted. He was sent to the center of Gush Katif to bring ammunition, but he did not have time to return, and after that Kfar Etzion fell on November 17, 1949. He was brought to rest with the rest of the Bloc in the military cemetery On Mount Herzl in Jerusalem