Harlap, Shmuel (Mula)

Son of Malka and Meir, was born on March 30, 1927 in the Kiryat Moshe neighborhood of Jerusalem, and finished elementary school. When he was more than his age, he enlisted in 1942 in the British army, to the drivers’ unit, when he was still 16 years old. After the liberation he worked as a driver and was at the same time a member of the Haganah. In December 1947 he was drafted into the army and served in the Jerusalem Brigade. One of the convoys that managed to break through the siege reached Kfar Etzion and stayed with the defenders until the day of surrender. Shmuel was among the captives and was wounded in the car of the prisoners on a mine in front of the monastery. He was brought to Bethlehem where he died of his wounds on May 14, 1948. He was buried in the cemetery of the French Hospital in Bethlehem on July 19, 1951. He was put to rest at home The father of Shmuel and Yitzhak, Meir, fell as a civilian in the War of Independence about two months after Shmuel from the shelling of the Jordanian legion when he was hit by shrapnel in his shop .