Goldschmidt, Yehoshua-Yeruham (Gal)

The eldest son of Esther, a long-time family member in Jerusalem and Yosef-Zvi (Shuv “in Givat Shaul), was born in the month of Adar 1925. He studied at the Talmud Torah and at the Etz Chaim Yeshiva. He later specialized in automotive mechanics and most of his salary was given to his parents. He was a member of the Hanoar Haoved movement and of the General Federation of Labor, and in 1944 joined the Etzel underground in Tel Aviv and at the same time worked as a salaried employee in the “Ihud Regev.” When he returned to Jerusalem he worked in mechanics and continued his organization’s operations with daring operations against the British, training and training, And most of the Irgun commanders in Jerusalem were among the few who were overlooked by the police, and therefore played an important role in maintaining the framework and leadership despite the confusion that ensued following these arrests. He went underground and lived in an attic and the British police arrested his brother and some of his relatives in order to pressure him to turn himself in. Once the British police surrounded his parents’ home while he was there, but managed to escape and escape to the mountains. When he came to Tel Aviv he worked in the organization of arms factories of the Irgun and in the winter of 1948 participated in activities against the Arabs and the British. When he visited Jerusalem and saw the magnitude of the danger awaiting the Jews, he insisted on his demand to transfer him to Jerusalem. As his friends say, he managed to establish ties with the leaders of the village of Abu Ghosh and obtained weapons from them during the fighting and the siege. He served as commander of the Irgun underground, the Russian Compound, part of the fort, Sheikh Jarrah and the police academy, and served as an operations officer and liaison officer of the Irgun with the Jerusalem Brigade, while standing in the battle on the edge of the Sanhedria neighborhood in Jerusalem opposite the police academy, with poor weapons against the Arab Legion, (May 19, 1948) and was buried in Sheik-Bader Aleph. On the 7th of Elul 5710 (7.9.1950) he was put to rest at the military cemetery on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem