Hamami, Yitzhak

Son of Malka and Menachem, was born on May 12, 1928 in Aleppo, Syria. Was an outstanding student and an excellent athlete. He aspired to immigrate to Zion. In 1944, at the age of 16, he left Syria, and his sister with him, “and in the darkness between beams of searchlights” sneaked into the country and arrived safely at Kfar Giladi. Yitzhak found a job in a freight transport cooperative in Rishon LeZion, added a penny to the penny, and four years later raised his parents and prepared a housing for them in the moshava. In 1948 he joined the ranks of the Haganah. He participated in escorting convoys on the way to Jerusalem, in the Nachshon operations and in various combat operations in the Givati ​​Brigade. He knew society alone, but he also understood the significance of the imperative of the day. “If we live, if we die – we are confident in victory, few against many,” he said. Yitzhak fell in battle on Tel A-Rish near Holon during Operation “Hametz” to encircle Jaffa, on the 28th of Nissan 5708 (28.4.1948). His burial place is unknown and a memorial to him was erected in the military cemetery on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem. In August 2007, in the framework of an investigation into the missing persons in the IDF, it was found that Yitzhak was buried in the Nahalat Yitzhak cemetery.