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Gees, Shalom

Gees, Shalom


Son of Rachel and Abraham, was born in 1905 in Tunis, the capital of Tunisia. Where he studied at the Talmud Torah and at the Alliance school, and with Zionist enthusiasm he immigrated to Israel in 1921 and settled in Jerusalem. For many years he dealt with peddling and during the Second World War, when his means of commerce were exhausted, he tried his luck with goldsmiths, shoemaking, and finally worked as a construction worker to support his wife and five children. When the War of Independence broke out he enlisted in the Engineering Corps and worked on fortifications on the Jerusalem fronts from Sheikh Jarrah to Ramat Rachel. On October 17, 1948, when he returned from his Shabbat vacation to his place of service in Ramat Rachel, he fell out of the car and was severely injured. At the hospital, they tried to save him by surgery, but the doctors’ efforts failed. On the 11th of Cheshvan 5709 (11.11.1948) he passed away and was put to rest at the military cemetery on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem.

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