Jezebin, Michael

Son of Henrietta and Abraham. He was born on September 19, 1901 in Tiflis, Russia. Studied at the Charlottenburg Polytechnic in Berlin and later at the Berlin Academy where he trained as an architect. He also spent some time in Paris where he devoted himself to the art of writing. In 1934 he settled in Tel Aviv, where he worked as an architect in the city’s engineering department until his enlistment in the British army in 1942. Michael was known as a kind and cheerful man, fond of people and connected to them. He had a sense of humor and irony, His principles. His inherent volunteerism led him to serve in the Civil Guard and then enlist in the British Army during World War II. When he enlisted in the army he began his service at the Sarafand training camp and a month later he was assigned to the Ordnance Corps. Two months later he was transferred to Egypt, where he was among the founders of a field-mapping company where he served in the photography section. On 10.4.1943, while serving in Egypt, he died of typhus and was put to rest at the military cemetery in Heliopolis, where he placed two brothers and a mother in a booklet issued by the Committee for the Treatment of the Families of Recruits from Tel Aviv Municipality. In his memory: “Jezebin was very interested in everything related to art, literature, building,” modern tales. ” And not only in the encyclopedic papers, he had a very developed aesthetic sense; His criticism was almost always strong and rarely positive. And the Jewish Jezebin – he found the way to his people and his country despite everything, despite the vortex of assimilation that prevailed in Central Europe. We are well aware of how quickly and stubbornly he acquired his knowledge of the language of his people. Here he knew how to love the country of the homeland, to protect it in times of trouble, to rejoice in its celebrations. “Michael Jezabin’s name appears in a black frame on the plaque honoring Tel Aviv municipality employees United States in the Second World War.