Feldman, Israel

He was born in 1919. During World War II, he enlisted in the British Army and was assigned to the 462 Company of the Transport Force, he served in Egypt and Beirut, and in late April 1943 he sailed aboard the ship “Arinapura” from Egypt to Malta to participate in the Allied invasion of Europe. On 27 Nisan,May 1, 1943, a German reconnaissance plane circled over the convoy of ships. The “Aryanpura” was hit by a German plane. Company 462 was killed in the disaster, Israel was among them, his name was immortalized in “The Book of Volunteerism,” in the Yizkor Book of the Jabotinsky Institute and in the “Yearbook of the Journalists”. In the military cemetery on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem, a memorial monument in the shape of a ship was erected in memory of those who were missing, and next to it is a small water pool, at the bottom of which are engraved the names of all the soldiers of the company who were drowned.