Ezra, Yaakov (Jack Singovi)

Born in the city of Aleppo, Syria, in 1926, he was born in Beirut in 1926 with his parents to Beirut, the capital of Lebanon, where he studied at the Alliance school, but for lack of means stopped his studies and went to work. Jewish soldiers from Eretz Israel during the Second World War continued to Palestine and immigrated in 1940. Upon his arrival he immediately joined the Palmach in Tiberias, but was not absorbed in the company, was released and tried to get along at work in Haifa. With no friends, no help and encouragement, he was unable to be absorbed into civilian life and in 1943 returned to Beirut. But the Land of Israel was already absorbed within him. Not long afterward he returned to Israel, and finally he got along at work and in society. With the outbreak of the War of Independence, following the decision of the UN General Assembly on 29 November 1947 to divide the country into two states, he enlisted in the service of the people and when he announced that he had served in the Palmach in 1940, he was sent to the Negev Brigade. When the Egyptian invasion began, he was sent with his platoon as reinforcements to Yad Mordechai to defend their point. Jacob fought courageously and heroically until he was hit by shrapnel and fell on the 14th of Iyar 5708 (May 23, 1948). He was brought to eternal rest in the cemetery at Yad Mordechai.