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Kobi, Shulamit

Kobi, Shulamit

Shulamit, daughter of Yehudit and Shlomo Kobi, was born in 1928 in the Old City of Jerusalem. At the outbreak of the War of Independence and with Jerusalem under siege, she volunteered for work at the Misgav Ladach Hospital and treated the wounded. When the British left the Old City, the Arabs began their attacks on the Jewish Quarter, and Shulamit was quick to help fortify our positions by sewing sacks of sand and mainly transporting the wounded from the Jewish Quarter to the hospital. On 8 Iyar, May 17, 1948, in the midst of a battle, when she left the shelter to visit her parents, the enemy shot her. Shulamit died but a few weeks before her marriage. She was buried in the Old City. Her 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 battle for Jerusalem and were buried on the Mount of Olives.

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