Hezi-Levi, Abraham

Son of Shoshana and Menahem, was born in 1919 in Tel Aviv and completed his studies in an elementary school. Avraham was married in his youth, went to Rishon Le-Zion and worked in the orchards of the area. When the riots broke out in 1936-1939, he joined the Nutras and worked against the gangs in various places in the country. At the beginning of the Second World War, he enlisted in the British army and served in the cavalry corps and later in the Royal Engineers Corps for six consecutive years, during a brief break in which he lay in a hospital after being wounded by shrapnel. Avraham would have given his friends the hours of work and leisure in his evening voice. In Italy he learned to speak and sing in Italian as well. He survived all the dangers he had endured and used to say: “Only once will a man die and it is good to die for a goal to which we aspire.” Two were, according to him, these goals: revenge against the Nazis and the liberation of the people and the land. After being released from the army he worked as a driver, married a wife and had a daughter. In the winter of 1948, he served as a driver on roads full of dangers, and on the day of the declaration of the state, he was drafted into the army as a combat soldier in the newly formed brigade.7 When he said goodbye to his family, he said: “Do not worry, just as I came back from the British war. Jerusalem was exacerbated by the detachment of the road to it by the Legion system in Latrun and to break through the road was planned son of-Nun Aleph and the mission was assigned to Brigade 7. The brigade’s forces encountered better enemy forces and were forced to retreat, On February 28, 1950, he was laid to rest at the military cemetery on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem.