Gini, Nissim

Son of Miriam and Isaac, was born in 1938 in the Old City of Jerusalem, where he lived his short life from beginning to end. He attended school until the War of Independence and the siege of the Jewish Quarter stopped his normal life. When the fighting began, he volunteered, like dozens of his small comrades, to defend his city and homeland and demanded a position. In the absence of telephones and wireless devices to connect the defensive posts in the winding alleys, he was assigned to serve as a link between position and position, and this role fulfilled the responsibility and loyalty of an adult in the hail of bullets and bomb-rumble. Recently he even asked for a pistol, in case an Arab came in front of him … but did not get it. On May 27, 1948, at the time of the fall of one of the positions by the enemy, he was seriously wounded and after a day of pain he died on the 28th of Iyar 5708 (May 28, 1948). He was buried in the Old City. He was ten years old at the time of his death, the youngest of Israel’s fallen soldiers. His name was engraved on the monument erected in the military cemetery on Mount Herzl in memory of those who perished in the Jewish Quarter and the memory of soldiers who fell in the battle for Jerusalem and were buried on the Mount of Olives.