Jacobus, Yosef-Chaim

Son of Miriam and Avraham was born on May 24, 1928, in Berlin, immigrated in 1923 with his family. At the outbreak of the War of Independence he stopped his work and volunteered to move to the isolated Old City and beat up the children’s Torah. “The order is also a war front for the existence of a people,” he would say, “and I must fight on this front as well.” In the day he taught the boys and at night he stood with his weapon in defensive positions. When he finished his service in the Old City, he volunteered to defend Jerusalem outside the wall, and in the last weeks of his life, he was in front of the gates of Damascus, which were under fire day and night. On the 12th of Tammuz 5708 (July 12, 1948), returning from a short vacation, after a visit to his parents’ home, despite heavy shelling, he hurried to his duty but got wounded by a shrapnel. (10.9.1950) was transferred to eternal rest in the military cemetery on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem.