Hamdi, Eliyahu

Son of Pnina and Shlomo. He was born on July 21, 1914 in Jerusalem. Where he completed his elementary studies at the Tachkemoni school, and was later forced to go to work to help support the household. At first he did as a trainee in paving and electrification, and when the work was not available, he used to go down to the lowlands and work for farmers in the orchards of Rehovot and Rishon Lezion. After he had married a wife and the Kaddish had given them all his time outside his daily work for his family. After the outbreak of World War II he accepted the call of the national institutions to volunteer for the British army and joined the Solel Boneh unit in the engineering corps. He was sent to Egypt and there he fulfilled his duties until the same disease occurred. He was first hospitalized in Egypt and then transferred to the French hospital on Mount Scopus in Jerusalem. On the 24th of Adar 5704 (March 24, 1944) he took his soul. He was brought to eternal rest on the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem and buried in the Yemenite community. He left a wife and daughter, a sister and three brothers