Itzhaki, Zadok
Was born on May 3, 1927, in Baghdad, the capital of Iraq, where he graduated from elementary and high school. He was an in-depth and inquisitive young man, jubilant and encouraging. Zadok he led a Zionist group called “Tel Hai.” After graduating, he and some of his friends decided to travel to Israel on foot. In 1941 they arrived in Ashdot Yaakov and were warmly received, and after a brief stay arrived with his friends in Beit Hashita for a year of training. Zadok moved to Tel Aviv, where he organized youth for the Young Guard, was sent to a half-year of training in Ginosar, and from there went with his group to Nevatim in the Negev. Zadok went to help his widowed sister, and his father and brothers who came to Israel, and then went to the Mikvah Israel course and worked daily in Tel Aviv in the profession of mechanics. With the outbreak of the War of Independence Zadok joined the “Special Company” in the “Kiryati” Brigade and was one of its operators. He escorted convoys and fought in the battles of Salameh, Abu Kabir, Manshiyeh and the conquest of Jaffa, participating in the “Nachshon” operation on the road to Jerusalem. On the 4th of Sivan, June 11, 1948, he fell after two acts of harassment in Lod and Ramle two hours before the first truce, trying to protect the library and stop the enemy’s armored vehicles, one of which hit his “anti-tank weapon” Zadok was killed by a second armored vehicle and brought to rest in the Nahalat Yitzhak Military Cemetery.
