Izbov, Elisha (Alush, Shmuel Abu-Dura, Avraham Cohen)

Son of Shulamit and Ibez (Eliahu) was born on April 1, 1942 in the city of Tiflis in the Caucasus region of Russia. When he was about a year old, his parents immigrated to Israel and settled in Jerusalem. In 1933 the family moved to the Jaffa border and Elisha began studying in the Yemenite Talmud Torah. Two years later, his father sent him to a profession because of lack of means to continue his studies. During the 1936 riots, the family moved to the Shapira neighborhood and Elisha began visiting evening classes because he was thirsty and wanted to fill what he had missed as a child. He helped the family. For a while he moved to the village and worked in agriculture. On his return from the village he joined the Communist Party and was active in its ranks. In 1945 he joined the “Freedom Fighters of Israel” underground and excelled in various combat activities, including the bombing of the Saraya house in Jaffa, where a British military headquarters was located at that time. His underground name was Avraham Cohen. When Lehi decided to blow up the gang headquarters in Nablus, Elisha was elected to this position, and on March 7, 1948, he went out in a car with an explosive device, accompanied by an Arab guide, to the Triangle and never returned. Two Britons, who were among the participants in the explosion of the car bomb on son of Yehuda Street in Jerusalem, tried to dismantle the mechanism of the explosion with which Elisha arrived, but failed to do so, Their work was shattered together with several other Arab officers, when an Arab officer shot and killed him, and his exact date of death is unknown Bar in the Arab village of kefir. On some of Tishrei Tsi”a (01/10/1950) was laid-rest at the military cemetery in Nahalat Yitzhak.