Kerner, Dov
Son of Tova and Abraham, was born on December 13, 1914 in the city of Alkios, Poland. He completed his studies in an elementary school and even studied in a “cheder”. When his turn came, he served in the Polish army. Dov immigrated to Israel in 1938 and served as a guard. In 1946 he was hired as a farm worker at the Hadassah University Hospital on Mount Scopus in Jerusalem. He continued his work with the danger of life that involved ascending and descending the mountain. The road to Mount Scopus passed through the Arab neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah and upon the outbreak of the war the movement was allowed to mount convoys secured by the British army. On the morning of April 13, 1948, a convoy left for Mount Scopus, after the British promised that the road was open and safe, and the convoy encountered an Arab ambush in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood and hundreds of Arabs torched it. Two buses, an ambulance and a escort vehicle were ambushed, and for many hours the convoy fought to prevent the Arabs from getting closer to the vehicles, which were fired from our positions in the city and Mount Scopus. And did nothing to help, in spite of appeals to them.In the afternoon the Arabs managed to set fire to them The British intervened and rescued the survivors from the trapped vehicles, and Dov was among the fallen on April 13, 1948. He was brought to eternal rest in a mass grave in Sanhedria in Jerusalem
