Kobi, Shimon

Shimon, son of Yehudit and Shlomo Kobi, was born in 1929 in Jerusalem. On January 17, 1948, the Arabs attacked the Haganah position at the Parnes factory in which he worked. The position was blown up by British soldiers and his body was covered with debris. The following day he was transferred by ambulance to the Hadassah Hospital on Mount Scopus but Shimon died. He was buried on the Mount of Olives, and his sister Shulamit was also killed in the Old City from enemy bullets when she returned from aiding the wounded on 8 Iyar, May 17, 1948. His name was engraved on the monument erected in the military cemetery on Mount Herzl in memory of those who perished in the Jewish Quarter and the memory of soldiers who fell in the battle for Jerusalem and were brought for burial on the Mount of Olives.