Itach, Shlomo

Son of Miriam and Moshe, was born in 1925 in Fez, Morocco. In his city, he graduated from an elementary school, and later worked as a tailor. He aspired to immigrate to Eretz Israel and in 1946 he boarded the ship Yehuda Halevy. Shlomo was taken to Cyprus and held there for a year and a half. When he was released in 1948, the War of Independence was already abandoned in the Land of Israel, and immediately upon his immigration he enlisted and served in one of the Palmach battalions in the Harel Brigade, participated in most of the battalion’s battles, first in Jerusalem and recently in the Negev. Rafah On January 7, 1949, he was in one of the Rafah governorates during a heavy bombardment from the air. A bomb fell into the position and hit him and his two friends. All three were killed. He was buried in Bet Eshel. On the 6 th of Elul 5709 (August 31, 1949), he was laid to rest at the military cemetery in Netanya.