Hananel , Haim

During the Second World War he enlisted in the British Army and was assigned to Transportation Unit 462. On 28.4.1943 he sailed with about three hundred soldiers of his unit and with soldiers of other units aboard the ship “Arinapura” from the port of Alexandria. The destination of the voyage was Malta, and the purpose was to help the Allies in the invasion of Sicily. On the afternoon of 27 Nisan, May 1, 1943, a German aircraft carrier attacked a convoy of ships, headed by the “Aryanpora”. The ship sustained two direct hits and within minutes began to sink into the depths. Along with the sinking ship, one hundred and forty of the unit’s soldiers also drowned. In the military cemetery on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem, a ship-shaped monument was erected in memory of the missing, and next to it is a small water pool, with the names of the hundred and forty people in the background engraved on the bottom. His name was also commemorated in “The Yearbook of the Journalists,” in “The Book of Volunteerism,” and in the book Yizkor, published by the Jabotinsky Institute. His burial place is unknown.