Friva, Eliyahu

Son of Chasida and Netanel. He was born in 1917 in Mexico and immigrated to Israel with his family in 1925. The family lived in Tel Aviv, where Eliyahu married a wife and had a son. During the Second World War he enlisted in the British army and was assigned to the Transport Corps. On 30 Tishrei (1.11.1940), he died of illness and was laid to rest in the cemetery on the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem. He left a wife, son and parents. His memory was immortalized in “The Book of Volunteerism,” in “The Book of the Year”, and in the Yizkor book of the Jabotinsky Institute.