Kasab, Avraham (Avon)

Ben Ezra and Bahia. Born in 1928 in Aleppo, northern Syria, he attended elementary and high school in Alliance, and joined a Zionist underground movement in 1941. In 1941, before his arrival at Bar Mitzvah, Avon went on foot with friends to Eretz Israel, In 1943, he was added to his age and was accepted as a volunteer for a Hebrew transport unit in the British army, which later joined the Brigade, and was able to arrive in British army uniform Visited his family in his hometown of Aleppo in Syria, and told his worried and proud parents about the plans for the establishment of the state On the way, he encouraged them to join him and immigrate to Israel, and after the liberation he joined the Palmach, and at the outbreak of the War of Independence he participated in the 7th Battalion of the Palmach in the Haifa area and accompanied convoys to Jerusalem. Companies of the 7th Battalion of the Palmach’s Negev Brigade, assisted by a jeep company, concentrated the southern concentration of enemy forces in Ashdod. The force moved at night from the direction of Nitzanim, and encountered difficulty in moving because of the sands. On the morning of the 5th day of Iyar 5708 (June 3, 1948), contact was made with the enemy who opened fire on the Palmach force, causing many casualties to our forces, among them Avraham Kasab, who was hit by a round of bullets in his stomach. When he was carrying the wounded and a combat manager while retreating, and when the wounded were removed from the battlefield, 10 soldiers, including Kasab, were left in the area, and his comrades left him a rifle and grenade for self-defense. Were buried immediately, and the others, including Abraham Kasab, who was buried under a false name, were brought to burial only a year and a half later, following a search initiated by H. K. families of the fallen and the army. On his last day, in the face of the bloody battles, Abraham wrote a will and sent it to his brother, but it was lost on the way. He was almost twenty years old when he fell. Survived by his parents and 7 brothers and sisters. For 56 years, Avraham Kasab was considered a cavalier whose burial place was unknown until the unit locating missing persons in the IDF located his grave in the Nahalat Yitzhak cemetery after he was buried under a false name On May 16, 2004, A military monument, attended by Avraham Kasab’s family.