Halevitz, Isaiah
Born on 25.11.1908 to a family of pioneers who immigrated to Israel from Russia in 1915 and settled in Jerusalem, he studied at the Tachkemoni School and the Hebrew Gymnasium in Jerusalem (his father was one of its founders) and later completed his studies He joined the Haganah at the age of 15. He completed his studies at the Hebrew Gymnasium in Jerusalem and went with a group of Magshimim He then went to Germany and Czechoslovakia for vocational training in electricity, and in 1929 he returned to Israel and set up his home in He was accepted to work at the Electric Company and served as a supervisor of the network in the Haifa area and participated in the defense of the Tel Amal neighborhood in 1936. During the War of Independence he served as a guide in the Hagana and afterwards was among the people And in the manpower division. He was loved by his friends, had a good disposition, was pleasant, and was acceptable to his superiors and to the sergeants. On the 18th of Adar 2, 5708 (18.3.1948), Yishayahu and a team of workers of the electric company he headed were forced to renew the electricity supply to the city of Acco, and when they went to carry out their mission they were attacked by Arabs and Isaiah and his comrades were murdered. – He died in a mass grave in the cemetery in Ramat Yohanan, leaving a wife, two daughters and a son, and his son Gideon fell in battle for Jerusalem in the Six-Day War
