Haga, Nissim

Son of Regina and Solomon, was born in 1923 in Baghdad, Iraq, immigrated to Israel in 1941, and took his little sister with him. When he arrived he brought her into an institution and he himself joined the Massada group in the Jordan Valley and stayed there for five years. Nissim then moved to Jerusalem and began to work as an electrician. He was a member of the Haganah, and upon the establishment of the State of Israel Nissim joined the Jerusalem Brigade. On the last day of the fighting, before the second truce, the Legion attacked the Mandelbaum House in Jerusalem; Nissim and his friends were called from the adjacent neighborhood of Magarra and managed to repel the enemy. But the enemy began with shelling and Nissim was severely wounded, and he protected his friend who he saved. When he was taken to the hospital, Nissim managed to say: “Regards to my wife and my little children who should succeed in the country.” Nissim fell on the 11th of Tammuz 5708 (18.7.1948). He was buried in Sheikh Bader Aleph. He left a wife and a child. On the 28th of Elul 5710 (10.9.1950) he was laid to rest at the military cemetery on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem.