Korbani-Levi, Aharon
Son of Leah and Shalom. He was born in 1921 in Beer-Yaakov and moved to the Mahane Yehuda neighborhood in Petach Tikva in 1927. Aharon attended the “Netzach Yisrael” religious elementary school and the “Mori” room in the style of the Yemenite Jews. He was forced to go to work as soon as he finished elementary school, working in orchards, packing citrus fruit and picking bananas, and was also an outstanding athlete, boxing and soccer player in the Betar – Machaneh Yehuda – Petah Tikva. Aaron’s brother told him that he “loved to help others and gave respect to everyone around him.” During World War II Aaron joined the British army. He belonged to the Hebrew Transport Unit 462, which was part of El Alamein’s defense system. On 28.4.1943 he sailed with about three hundred soldiers of his unit and with soldiers of other units aboard the ship “Arinapura” from the port of Alexandria. The destination of the voyage was Malta. And the aim was to help the Allies in the invasion of Sicily. On the afternoon of May 1, 1943, in the afternoon, a German aircraft carrier attacked a convoy of ships. The ship absorbed two direct hits and within minutes began to sink into the depths. Along with the sinking ship, a hundred and forty of the soldiers of Unit 462, Aaron among them, also drowned. In the military cemetery on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem, a ship-shaped monument was erected in memory of the missing, and next to it is a small water pool with the names of the hundred and forty fallen. The space is a machete – a space whose burial place is unknown
